CAS Registry Number: [77-92-9] - Anhydrous
Chemical Formula: C6H8O7
E-Number: E330
CAS Registry Number: [5949-29-1] - Monohydrate
Chemical Formula: C6H8O7.H2O
E-Number: E330
Main Functions / Properties
Food/Beverages
- Adjusts pH
- Provides acidity
- Provides tart taste
- Enhances flavour and reduces sweetness
- Increases effectiveness of preservatives
- Optimizes gel strength in jams/jellies/gelatin desserts
- Prevents discoloration/off-flavours
- Inactivates enzymes/micro-organisms
- Catalyses sugar inversion
- Chelates trace metals
- Acts as synergistic antioxidant
- Retards fat oxidation
- Promotes leavening process
- Stabilizes colour, taste, flavour, vitamines
Pharmaceuticals
- Provides effervescence
- Maintains rapid dissolution of active ingredients
- Maintains stability of active ingredients
- Enhances activity of preservatives
- Buffers pH
- Masks the bitter medicinal taste by its tart taste
- Enhances flavour
- Improves palatability and solubility of cathartics and analgesics
- Acts as anticoagulant
Personal Care
- Adjusts pH
- Acts as metallic ion chelator
- Enhance action of methyl parabens
Detergents/Cleaners
- Acts as buffer
- Sequesters trace metal ions
- Replaces phosphates
- Removes metal oxidation products from the surface of ferrous and non-ferrous metals
- Eliminates chloride stress cracking
- Is rapidly biodegradable
Industrial Applications
- Adjusts pH
- Acts as set retarding, water reducing agent in concrete/mortar/plaster
- Functions as a complexing agent in textiles and oil well treatment
- Replaces more corrosive and hazardous strong acids
- Enhances flavour in tobacco
- Induces complete combustion in cigarettes
- Retards gelation in adhesives
- Acts as hardener component in adhesives
- Acts as binder in refractory cements
- Improves feeding effect in animal feeding
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