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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 626<br />

NAME: Cholecalciferol<br />

CATEGORY: Nutritive additive<br />

FOOD USE: Breakfast cereals/ Cereal products/ Cornmeal/ Dietary supplements/ Dietetic foods/ Egg products/<br />

Farina/ Fats and oils/ Formulated liquid diets/ Infant formulae/ Liquid milk/ Margarine/ Meal<br />

replacements/ Milk powder/ Pasta/ Rice<br />

SYNONYMS: Calciol/ 5,7-Cholestadien-3-b-ol/ Colecalciferol/ Activated 7-dehydrocholesterol/ Oleovitamin D3/ Vitamin D3/ CAS 67-97-0/ EINECS 200-673-2<br />

FORMULA: C27H44O<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 384.65<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Calciferol/ Provitamin 7-dehydrocholesterol<br />

PROPERTIES: Unstable in light and air; oily blends stabilised with tocopherol<br />

APPEARANCE: Oily blends: clear, colourless to slightly yellow. Dry blends: off-white to yellowish fine granular powder<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: 84–85<br />

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

in water: Practically insoluble<br />

in vegetable oil: Slightly soluble<br />

in ethanol solution: Soluble<br />

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

ALTERNATIVES: Vitamin D2<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Frequently diluted for use by preparing in either an oily blend or a dry powder. Oily blends are soluble<br />

in fats and oils; homogenising in a small amount of liquid is necessary prior to adding to milk and<br />

infant formulae. Dry powders are water-dispersible

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