Citric Acid Anhydrous USP Details

Citric Acid Anhydrous USP Used in food, beverage industries as acidulous agent, flavoring.Citric Acid Anhydrous USP Used in food, beverage industries as acidulous agent, flavoring agent, and preservative, also used in detergent, electric plating, and chemical industries as oxidation inhibitor, plasticizer etc.

Citric Acid Anhydrous USP is an organic acid found a variety of fruits and Acidity regulators vegetables, but it is most concentrated in lemons and limes.Citric Acid Anhydrous USP is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) taste to foods and soft drinks. In biochemistry, Citric Acid Anhydrous USP is important as an intermediate in the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle (see last paragraph) and therefore occurs in the metabolism of almost all living things. Excess citric acid is readily metabolized and eliminated from the body.Citric Acid Anhydrous USP is an antioxidant. It is also used as an environmentally friendly cleaning agent.

Mainly used in the food , beverage trade as the sour flavour agent, flavoring agent, antiseptic as well as antistaling agent

1. In the food industry,Citric Acid Monohydrate uses as the drinks sour flavour agent. Mainly used in various kinds of cold drinks and for such foods production as soda, candy, biscuit, can, jam, fruit juice ,etc., also can be used as greases antioxidant; 

2. In medical industry,Citric acid monohydrate is the raw materials of a lot of pharmaceuticals, such as the citric acid piperazine(lumbricide ), ferric ammonium citrate (blood tonic ), sodium citrate (blood transfusion pharmaceutical). In addition, citric acid also is used as the acidifier in many pharmaceuticals; 

3. In the chemical industry, the ester of citric acid can use as the Acidity regulators to make the plastic film of food packing ; 

4. In other respects, such as used in industry and civil detergent as the auxiliary agent for making nuisance free detergent; Used in the concrete as the retarder; also been widely used in electroplating, leather industry, printing ink, blue print industry,etc.