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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 574<br />

NAME: DL-a-Tocopherol<br />

CATEGORY: Antioxidants, Nutritive <strong>additives</strong><br />

FOOD USE: Edible oils and fats/ Meat products/ Poultry products/ Eggs and egg products<br />

SYNONYMS: Vitamin E/ All-rac-a-tocopherol<br />

FORMULA: C29H50O2<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 430.71<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: DL-a-tocopheryl-acetate/ Natural tocopherols mix<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Yellow, viscous oil<br />

BOILING POINT IN °C AT VARIOUS 200–220<br />

PRESSURES (INCLUDING 760 mm Hg):<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: 2.5–3.5<br />

DENSITY AT 20°C (AND OTHER 0.947–0.958 (25/25°C)<br />

TEMPERATURES) IN g/l:<br />

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

in vegetable oil: @ 20°C Soluble<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 5% Soluble in alcohol<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: As antioxidant in oils, fats, fat-based products, sausages.<br />

Nutrient, preservative, inhibitor of nitrosamine formation in pump-cured bacon.<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Soluble in fat and oil

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