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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Flour Additives 552<br />

NAME: L-Cysteine hydrochloride<br />

CATEGORY: Flour additive<br />

FOOD USE: Bread/ Biscuits<br />

SYNONYMS: L-Cysteine monohydrochloride/ L-2-Amino-3-mercaptopropanoic acid hydrochloride<br />

FORMULA: C3 H7 NO2 S.HCl.H2O<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 175.63<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: White crystalline powder or colourless crystals<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: Decomposes 175<br />

PURITY %: 98.5% minimum<br />

WATER CONTENT MAXIMUM IN %: 12.0<br />

HEAVY METAL CONTENT MAXIMUM IN 20<br />

ppm:<br />

ARSENIC CONTENT MAXIMUM IN ppm: 3<br />

ASH MAXIMUM IN %: 0.1<br />

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

in water: @ 20°C 100%<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 5% Freely soluble<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Flour improver suited to use in the activated dough development breadmaking process.<br />

Treatment of biscuit flours – serves to reduce elasticity and produce uniformity in the dough<br />

ALTERNATIVES: Sulphur dioxide; sodium metabisulphite

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