Evaluation of some Mineral Concentrations of Cheese by using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer

Abstract

In this research concentrations of 10 different mineralswere evaluated in commercial whitecheese, pigtail cheese and triangles cheese. Ten minerals were analyzed by an Inductively Coupled plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer(ICP-AES). Respective mean mineral concentration (ppm) of white cheese, pigtail cheese and cheese triangles were:Al 94.125,73.75,64.0;Cr 0, 0, 0 ; Mn 1.40,1.2875,0.6875;Fe 13.075,16.45,6.675;Ni 8.6125, 8.8, 6.925; Cu 0, 0, 0 ; Zn 22.4125,22.9125,14.7875;Cd1.2, 0.6625, 0.4375; Ba 0, 0, 0 ;Pb 16.375,4.9,4.6125. These results show that there is some minerals (Cr, Cu and Ba) were not exist and other found with high concentration in comparison with the standard specification.