Betekenis van:
sorbic acid
sorbic acid
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- sorbic acid
- Hexa-2,4-dienoic acid/Sorbic acid
- Sorbic acid is the basic product.
- Use of sorbic acid in potassium sorbate form
- Not more than about 1,0 % (as sorbic acid or K2CO3)
- Use of sorbic acid is limited because of its low solubility in water.
- Sorbic acid is the basic product. It is a fatty acid, decomposed and utilised in the body, and physiologically inert.
- Sorbic acid and its salts (including potassium sorbate) rank among the main preservatives used in western Europe. Sorbic acid represents 30 % of sorbates sales and potassium sorbate represents the remaining 70 %.
- Melting range of sorbic acid isolated by acidification and not recrystallised 133 oC to 135 oC after vacuum drying in a sulphuric acid desiccator
- It is a technically complex substance to produce, whilst other sorbate products are the result of a technically simpler conversion step from sorbic acid.
- Use of sorbic acid is limited because of its low solubility in water. Therefore, potassium sorbate is the primary form used in most products with high water content.