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    How to use potassium sorbate

    • Last Update: 2017-04-08
    • Source: Internet
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    Introduction: as a kind of food additive, potassium sorbate has antiseptic effect How to use potassium sorbate? Our editor will introduce you in this article Potassium sorbate is a kind of colorless to white flake crystal or crystalline powder, odorless or slightly smelly, unstable in the air, and can be oxidized and colored It is a food additive How to use potassium sorbate When used, it can be directly added, sprayed, dipped, dried powder spray, and processed on packaging materials Potassium sorbate is incompatible with alkali, oxidant and reductant When it comes to nonionic surfactants and plastics, the antibacterial activity of sorbic acid will be reduced Heavy metal salts can catalyze the oxidation reaction Sorbic acid can also react with sulfur-containing amino acids, but the reaction can be inhibited by adding vitamin C, propyl gallate or butylhydrotoluene When the solution is stored in a glass container, it is very sensitive to pH Therefore, it is necessary to detect the amount of microbe after using potassium sorbate as preservative for a long time If sorbic acid solution is stored in polypropylene, PVC or polyethylene containers without antioxidant, sorbic acid will degrade quickly Food additives have almost become an indispensable problem in the process of food production It's better to use a food safety tester to test them after the completion of production Learning more about food additives can bring benefits to people's diet in the future Among them, what's the role of potassium sorbate? You can log into our Baibai safety net Check it out Editor in charge: he xianrob
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