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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 638<br />

NAME: Ferrous sulphate, anhydrous<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 />

SYNONYMS: Iron sulphate (ous)/ Iron (II) sulphate (1 :1)/ Iron vitriol/ Copperas/ Green vitriol/ Sal chalybis/<br />

CAS 7720-78-7/ EINECS 231-753-5<br />

FORMULA: Fe O4 S<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 151.91<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Monohydrate, heptahydrate<br />

PROPERTIES: Metallic taste. Bioavailability of pure compound is excellent, but may be altered in presence of other<br />

food components<br />

APPEARANCE: Greyish white to yellow crystalline powder<br />

MELTING POINT (°C): 64<br />

DENSITY: 1.89<br />

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

in water: Slowly soluble<br />

in ethanol solution: Insoluble<br />

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

ALTERNATIVES: Ferric choline citrate/ Ferric orthophosphate/ Ferric pyrophosphate/ Ferrous fumarate/ Ferrous<br />

gluconate/ Ferrous lactate/ Reduced elemental iron/ Sodium iron pyrophosphate

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