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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Flour Additives 542<br />

NAME: Glucono-delta-lactone<br />

CATEGORY: Flour additive/ Sequestrant<br />

FOOD USE: Baked goods and frozen doughs/ Dairy products: set yogurt; sour cream; cottage cheese/ Salad<br />

dressings/ Meat products/ Pickled foods<br />

SYNONYMS: Delta lactone of D-gluconic acid/ D-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxycaproic acid/ D-Glucono-1,5-lactone/ E575<br />

FORMULA: CH2(OH)CHCH(OH)CH(OH)CH(OH)CO<br />

O<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 178.14<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: White, fine or coarse crystalline powder<br />

PURITY %: >99.0<br />

HEAVY METAL CONTENT MAXIMUM IN 10<br />

ppm:<br />

ARSENIC CONTENT MAXIMUM IN ppm: 2<br />

ASH MAXIMUM IN %: 0.05<br />

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

in water: @ 25°C 59<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 100% 1<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Produces a slow release of acidity in aqueous solution. Acts as an acid, an acidulant and as a raising<br />

agent. Lacks the unpleasant after-taste associated with some raising agents<br />

ALTERNATIVES: Potassium tartrate; calcium tetrahydrogen diorthophosphate; disodium dihydrogen diphosphate; sodium<br />

aluminium phosphate

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