Food additives buffering agents

Use Food additive, buffer and sequestering agent, vitamin tablets. 

Products and Uses Various applications include brick mortar, plasters, cements, depilatory (hair remover), disinfectants, water softener, and purifier of sugar juices. Also useful as food additive buffer, firming agent, neutralizing agent, and miscellaneous general purpose food chemicals. Also an important agricultural commodity. 

A tasteless, odorless, water soluble salt of calcium. It may be administered intravenously for the relief of tetany, caused by an abnormal decrease in blood serum calcium and characterized by cramplike involuntary muscle spasm. Also, calcium gluconate is used as a food additive, buffer, and firming agent, and in some vitamin tablets. 

Aluminum is present naturally in tea and some vegetables. Aluminum is introduced into grain products and processed cheese from aluminum-containing food additives. These products are used as acidifiers, buffers, leavening agents, emulsifiers, stabilizers, thickeners, and anticaking agents. For example,... 

These new man-made chemicals are everywhere. Some 2-3000 are used as food additives 30 are used as preservatives 28 as antioxidants 44 as sequesterants 85 as surfactants 31 as stabilizers 24 as bleaches 60 as buffers, acids or alkalies 35 as coloring agents 9 as special sweeteners ... 

Use Dye and color intermediate, pharmaceuticals, cinnamic acid, soaps, photography, purification of glucose, meat preservation, medicine, electroplating, tanning, dehydrating agent, buffer, lab reagent, food additive. 

Because minerals are an integral part of many enzymes, they play an important role in food processing, e.g., in alcoholic and lactic fermentation, meat aging, and dairy food production. Many compounds used as food additives or for rheological modification of some foods contain metallic cations in their structure. A number of these compounds function as antimicrobials, sequestrants, antioxidants, flavor enhancers, and buffering agents, and sometimes even as dietary supplements (Table 4.4). 

OTHER COMMENTS used in mortar, plasters, cements, and other building and paving materials used in the recovery of ammonia in gas manufacture, in water softening, and in the purification of sugar juices useful as an accelerator for low-grade rubber compounds also used as a depilatory, a soil conditioner, and a food additive as buffer and neutralizing agent. 

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