Megazyme K-AVCHO: Available Carbohydrates Assay Kit
Product code: K-AVCHO
The Available Carbohydrates Assay Kit method is suitable for the determination of available carbohydrates (AVCHO) comprising *total digestible starch (TDS) plus maltodextrins, sucrose, D-glucose, D-fructose and lactose.
New Improved method receiving ‘First Action’ status: AOAC 2020.07.
This method is designed to simulate in vivo conditions in the human small intestine (i.e. a 4 h incubation time with PAA + AMG) in parallel with recent advances in Dietary Fiber (DF) methodology (K-RINTDF: AOAC Method 2017.16) and in accordance with the new (physiological based) definition of DF announced by Codex Alimentarius in 2009. Also, sucrose is hydrolysed with a specific “sucrase” enzyme which (unlike invertase which has been used traditionally for this reaction) has no action on fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS).
* Total digestible starch (TDS) is defined as starch that is digested in a 4 h period and is part of the carbohydrate that is available for digestion and absorption in the human small intestine.
| Content: | 100 assays of each per kit |
| Shipping Temperature: | Ambient |
| Storage Temperature: | Short term stability: 2-8oC, Long term stability: See individual component labels |
| Stability: | > 2 years under recommended storage conditions |
| Analyte: | Available Carbohydrates, Dietary Fiber |
| Assay Format: | Spectrophotometer |
| Detection Method: | Absorbance |
| Wavelength (nm): | 340 |
| Signal Response: | Increase |
| Linear Range: | 4 to 80 μg of D-glucose, D-fructose or D-galactose per assay |
| Limit of Detection: | 1.475 g/100 g |
| Reaction Time (min): | ~ 5 h |
| Application examples: | Food ingredients, food products and other materials. |
| Method recognition: | AOAC Method 2020.07 |
