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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 634<br />

NAME: Ferrous fumarate<br />

CATEGORY: Nutritive additive<br />

FOOD USE: Breads/ Cereals/ Cornmeal/ Dietary supplements/ Dietetic foods/ Egg products/ Farina/ Flour/<br />

Formulated liquid diets/ Fruit-flavoured drinks and bases/ Heat-and-serve dinners/ Infant cereals/ Infant<br />

formulae/ Meal replacements/ Rice/ Pasta/ Peanut spreads/ Simulated meat and poultry products/<br />

Waffles<br />

SYNONYMS: Iron (II) fumarate/ CAS 141-01-5/ EINECS 205-447-7<br />

FORMULA: C4 H2 FeO4<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 169.90<br />

PROPERTIES: Odourless; almost tasteless. Bioavailability of pure compound is excellent, but may be altered in<br />

presence of other food components<br />

APPEARANCE: Reddish-orange to reddish-brown granular powder<br />

MELTING POINT (°C): Not melted at 280<br />

DENSITY: 2.435 at 25°C<br />

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

in water: @ 25°C 0.14 g/100 ml<br />

in ethanol solution: @ 95%

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