Quality Control

Our ambition – top quality from controlled organic cultivation!

The experienced Rapunzel Quality Control Team continuously performs very elaborate quality controls. Additionally, our products are analyzed by recognized external laboratories.

The most important elements of Rapunzel quality:

1. Very close contact to our suppliers

Fair cooperation
Improvement of cultivation conditions and production processes
Identification of possible sources of pollution
Regular supplier audits, i.e. personal on-site inspection by Rapunzel staff

2. Thorough control of incoming goods

Inspection of the truck or container load
Inspection of packing and labels
Sampling
Continuous transparency from the field to the table

3. Sampling and analysis

Coordination and implementation of optimal sampling
Analytical tests (quick tests) in our own laboratory performed by Rapunzel staff
Additional quality controls by independent, external experts
Inspection of organoleptic and visual criteria

4. Improvement and monitoring of production processes

Optimal protection of all valuable components, e.g. vitamins and minerals
Use of the best organic raw materials
Production of food products free of synthetic additives (e.g. aromas)
Gentle, traditional processing

Details of our quality control system

In order to ensure a thorough control of incoming goods every Rapunzel article receives its own lot number for cultivation, transport and processing. With this lot number, the goods can be backtracked all the way to the producer.

Additional quality controls by independent, external experts and by Rapunzel staff include the following:

Multiple controls of all products obtained from our own cultivation projects or products that are delivered to us by our suppliers
Analysis of advance samples at headquarters in Legau and by accredited laboratories
Batch-related sampling and analysis for more than 600 different parameters, e.g.: pesticides and heavy metals of incoming goods
Continuous control of the entire production process by our quality team that includes two food engineers, a chemical food engineer, a food engineer for product development and three food chemists.
Average annual expenditures for analytical work.

Gentle processing of our high-quality organic raw materials is our tradition and has positive effects on the quality of our products:

Nuts for our nut spreads are always freshly roasted prior to processing using gentle hot-air roasting.
All Rapunzel cooking oils are cold-pressed and processed without chemical additives. Thanks to the gentle pressing technique, the runout temperature of our native sunflower oil, for example, never exceeds 40° C. Low-temperature processing protects nutritiously important substances such as vitamins, fatty acids and secondary plant compounds.