Ascorbic Acid

Specification

Introduction: Vitamin C is a colorless crystal, odourless, acidic taste. Soluble in water and ethanol. Stable in dry air, and its solution is not stable. Vitamin C takes part in many metabolism procedures in the human body, helps decrease brittleness of blood capillaries.

Vitamin C is abundant in vegetables and fruits. A water-soluble vitamin and powerful antioxidant, it helps the body form and maintain connective tissue, including bones, blood vessels, and skin

Function: Vitamin C is widely applied in many fields such as food , beverage, breeding and forage additives.

Its main functions reflected in following 5 aspects:

• Keep food, fruits and beverage fresh and prevent them from producing unpleasant smell.
  
• Prevent formation of nitrous amine from nitrous acid in meat products.
• Improve dough quality and make baked food expand to its maximum.
• Compensate the Vitamin C losses of beverage fruits and vegetables during processing rocedures.
  
• Adopted as nutritional element in additives, Feed additives.

 ASCORBIC ACID 

 Ascorbic Acid  is a white or slightly yellow crystals or powder,a little acid.m.p.190-192,easily soluble in water,a little soluble in alcohol and uneasily soluble in Ether and chlorofom and other organic solvent.In solid state it is stable in air.Its water solution is easliy mutated when it meets with air.

Usage:

In the pharmaceutical industry,can be used to treat  scurvy and various acute and chronic infections diseases,are applicable to the lack of VC,