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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 630<br />

NAME: Cyanocobalamin<br />

CATEGORY: Nutritive additive<br />

FOOD USE: Dietary supplement/ Dietetic foods/ Egg products/ Formulated liquid diets/ Heat-and-serve dinners/<br />

Infant formulae/ Meal replacments<br />

SYNONYMS: Vitamin B12/ Cyanocon (III) alamin/ a-(5,6-Dimethylbenzimidazolyl) cyanocobamide/ Extrinsic factor/<br />

CAS 68-19-9/ EINECS 200-680-0<br />

FORMULA: C63H88Co N14O14P<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 1355.38<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Methylcobalamin/ Cobalamide (bioactive forms)<br />

PROPERTIES: Very hygroscopic; fairly heat stable; odourless and tasteless<br />

APPEARANCE: Dark red crystalline powder; can be diluted with sugar starch or dicalcium phosphate to give a fine<br />

pink powder<br />

MELTING RANGE IN °C: >300<br />

WATER CONTENT MAXIMUM IN %: 12<br />

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

in water: 1g dissolves in 80 ml<br />

in ethanol solution: Soluble<br />

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

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Serial dilution of pure compound required. Commercially available in crystalline form as spray-dried<br />

powders in low and medium concentrations of 0.1 and 1.0%, respectively; as triturate products in<br />

mannitol or dicalcium phosphate, or encapsulated in gelatin coating. The spray-dried low concentrate<br />

appears to be the form most used in food applications. Optimum pH for use is 4–5

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