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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 614<br />

NAME: Calcium ascorbate<br />

CATEGORY: Nutritive additive<br />

FOOD USE: Breakfast cereals/ Dietary supplements/ Dietetic foods/ Formulated liquid diets/ Infant formulae/<br />

Low-sodium dietetic products/ Meal replacements<br />

SYNONYMS: Ascorbic acid calcium salt/ Vitamin C<br />

FORMULA: C12H14CaO12<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 390.31<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Ascorbic acid/ Ascorbyl palmitate/ Sodium ascorbate<br />

PROPERTIES: Odourless, bitter taste. Not heat-stable at neutral pH<br />

APPEARANCE: White to slightly yellow powder<br />

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

in water: Freely soluble<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Enrichment, fortification, or restoration<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Optimum pH is between 5 and 7. Other uses include antioxidant, meat colour preservative, preservative<br />

ANTAGONISTS: Oxidation, light, minerals, heat-labile in neutral environments, but less so in highly acidic environments<br />

FOOD SAFETY ISSUES: Some adverse effects can occur with extremely high repeated doses in the 500 mg to 10 g range

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