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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 596<br />

NAME: Beta-carotene<br />

CATEGORY: Colours; Nutritive <strong>additives</strong><br />

FOOD USE: Baked goods/ Dairy products/ Beverages/ Soft drinks/ Edible oils and fats/ Vinegar, pickles and sauces/<br />

Sugars, sugar preserves and confectionery<br />

SYNONYMS: Provitamin A/ <strong>Food</strong> Orange 5/ Natural Yellow 26/ C.I. 40800/ C.I. 75130<br />

FORMULA: C40 H56<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 536.88<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Oily suspensions: brick-red viscous oil stabilised with tocopherol, ascorbyl palmitate. Emulsions: oilin-water,<br />

stabilised with tocopherol or BHA/BHT.<br />

Dry powders: red-brown, fine granular powder.<br />

Fine orange powder<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: 187.5<br />

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

in water: @ 20°C Insoluble in water @ 100°C Insoluble in water<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 100% Slightly soluble<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Oily suspensions: coloration and fortification of oils and fats, dressings, butter, ice-cream,<br />

confectionery, fruit drinks.<br />

Emulsions: coloration and fortification of fruit drinks, dairy products, pasta, bakery products, snacks,<br />

confectionery, dressings.<br />

Dry powders: coloration and fortification of dairy products, pasta, snacks, bakery products,<br />

confectionery, beverages, soups, sauces, dressings.<br />

Fine orange powder: coloration and fortification of instant products, confectionery, dairy products,<br />

pasta, snacks, bakery products

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