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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Flavour Enhancers 524<br />

NAME: Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate<br />

CATEGORY: Flavour enhancer<br />

FOOD USE: Beer-making<br />

SYNONYMS: CAS 10034-99-8/ EINECS 231-298-8/ E518/ Bitter salts/ Espom salts<br />

FORMULA: MgO4S·7H2O<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 246.48<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Magnesium sulphate<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Efflorescent crystal or powder; bitter, saline, cooling taste<br />

DENSITY AT 20°C (AND OTHER 1.670<br />

TEMPERATURES) IN g/L:<br />

SOLUBILITY % AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURE/pH COMBINATIONS:<br />

in water: @ 20°C 71 g/100 ml<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Firming agent; flavour enhancer; nutrient/dietary supplement; processing aid<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Keep in well-closed container<br />

LEGISLATION: USA: UK and EUROPE: AUSTRALIA/<br />

PACIFIC RIM:<br />

FDA 21CFR 184.1443: affirmed Europe: listed Japan: approved for<br />

as GRAS for use as flavour enhancer, EEC regulation (E518): approved for use as coagulant for<br />

nutrient supplement and processing aid use as dietary supplement, firming tofu, fermentation aid,<br />

agent and in beer-making and yeast nutrient<br />

UK: approved for use<br />

REFERENCE: Lewis, R. J., Sr. (1989) <strong>Food</strong> Additives Hand<strong>book</strong>. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

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