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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Nutritive Additives 648<br />

NAME: Reduced elemental iron<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: Carbonyl iron/ Electrolytic iron/ CAS 7439-89-6/ EINECS 231-096-4<br />

FORMULA: Fe<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 55.84<br />

ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Ferric orthophosphate/ Ferrous fumarate/ Ferrous sulphate<br />

PROPERTIES: Not water-soluble. Bioavailability of pure compound is good, but may be altered in the presence of<br />

other food components<br />

APPEARANCE: Grey-black powder<br />

BOILING POINT IN °C AT VARIOUS 3000<br />

PRESSURES (INCLUDING 760 mm Hg):<br />

MELTING POINT (°C): 1536<br />

DENSITY: 7.87<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Enrichment, fortification or restoration. Also used as processing aid in Japan<br />

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

gluconate/ Ferrous lactate/ Ferrous sulphate/ Sodium iron pyrophosphate<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Phytic acid, fibres, phosphates, polyphenolics, some proteins, and organic acids can adversely affect<br />

iron absorption, whereas other compounds such as ascorbic acid and some amino acids enhance the<br />

absorption of this mineral

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