NIR Food Analyzer for Moisture, Fat, Protein & More - in Under a Minute

One Analyzer, Every Team on Your Floor

From incoming raw material to final release, the SpectraStar™ XT gives every team the same fast, operator-independent numbers, whether they're at the QC bench or out on the line.

For QC & the Lab: Clear the reference-method backlog. Swap slow oven-moisture and solvent-fat methods for a one-minute scan, and reach tougher constituents like fiber, ash, and fatty acids with the extended range. Build calibrations for your own products with UCal™ 4, and keep full traceability through a SQL database and LIMS export.

For Production & Operations: Decide in the moment, not after the lab. A sealed, fanless analyzer with a 17" touchscreen runs at-line with minimal training, so you can check batches in process, cut giveaway and rework, and release product faster with results anyone can reproduce.

For Plant Management: One platform, every site, one standard. TRUE ALIGNMENT Spectroscopy and KPMLink® keep every analyzer reading to the same standard across shifts and locations, with no mandatory recurring license to keep it running, which helps lower your total cost of ownership.

The SpectraStar™ XT measures moisture, fat, and protein as standard, with the extended wavelength range of the XT-R model, you can also measure fiber, ash, sugars, starch, and fatty acids in more complex products. It ships with ready-to-use calibrations across the major food categories, so most processors are measuring on day one without building their own models.

Ready-to-Use Food Calibrations Include:

• Flour and grains: hard wheat, soft wheat, and clear flour; ground wheat; corn, corn flour, and corn meal; white and brown rice; whole oats
• Snacks and baked goods: cookies, potato chips, tortilla chips, pita chips
• Breakfast cereals: flakes, nut-based, colored, oat-based, etc.
• Meats & seafood: various meats & byproducts, meals, rind, blend, sausage, salami, etc.
• Other: food additives, oilseeds and seed oils, olive oil, nuts, potato flakes, processed foods

Additional food calibrations are available and custom calibrations can be built with UCal™ 4. Talk to our experts about your unique needs.

The same analyzer runs on the QC bench and out on the production floor - one platform, one set of results.

• Fast: samples analyzed in under a minute; results on a 17" touchscreen in a couple of touches.
• Simple & safe: little or no sample prep, no hazardous chemicals to buy, store, or dispose of.
• Sealed & fanless: a sealed, powder-coated aluminum case with no venting or fan - at home in a clean lab and rugged enough for at-line use.
• Stays aligned: patented TRUE ALIGNMENT® Spectroscopy (TAS) corrects drift and re-standardizes the instrument to factory values, so results hold over time and transfer cleanly across units and locations
• Connected: UScan™ software with SPC trend charting, direct report printouts, customizable LIMS export, and cloud access via KPMLink®

• NIR over wet chemistry: minutes instead of hours, no solvents, operator-independent results you can act on at the line.
• Open calibration approach: ready-to-use Unity calibrations plus UCal™ 4 to build or port your own models freely.
• No mandatory recurring license to keep your analyzer running. Combined with a user-changeable 10,000-hour lamp and low-cost user parts, this can lower total cost of ownership.
• Extended range, dual detector: 680–2600 nm across 1920 data points, reaching below and above the conventional ~800–2500 nm NIR window to support difficult constituents like fibers, sugars, and fatty acids.
• Sealed, fanless design: no venting or fan, for dust and rugged use at-line.
• ISO 12099 aligned: meets NIR guidelines for feedstuffs, cereals, and milled cereal products.