Anticaking agents magnesium silicate

Anticaking agents commonly used include calcium carbonate, phosphate, silicate, and stearate cellulose (microcrystalline) kaolin magnesium carbonate, hydroxide, oxide, silicate, and stearate myristates palmitates phosphates silica (silicon dioxide) sodium ferrocyanide sodium silicoa-lummale and starches. 

Anticaking agents include carbonates, phosphates, silicates, and fatty acid salts of calcium and magnesium. Levels of anticaking agents in food products are determined by manufacturing, based on good practices. 

Magnesium silicate is used in oral pharmaceutical formulations and food products as a glidant and an anticaking agent. 

Calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, kaolin, talc, magnesium carbonate, and zinc oxide are frequently used as nutrient supplements or food diluents. Calcium silicate and fumed silica are used as anticaking agents. They are added in concen-... 

A very soft mineral that is a basic silicate of magnesium, has a soapy feel and is used esp. in making Talcum powder. (See also ANTICAKING AGENT)... 

Much of the silicon found in most diets probably occurs as aluminosilicates and silica from which silicon is not readily available. Owing to lack of evidence for a biological role for silicon in humans, no recommended intakes have been set. Silicon is essentially nontoxic when taken orally. Magnesium trisilicate, an over-the-counter antacid, has been used by humans for more than 40 years without obvious deleterious effects. Other silicates are food additives used as anticaking or antifoaming agents. 

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