Citric Acid Monohydrate CAS 5949-29-1

Citric acid monohydrate is mainly used in the food and beverage industries. As sour representative, seasoning representative as well as preservative, chemical. It can additionally be utilized as feed additive, non-toxic detergent, mordant, and so on. It is additionally used as antioxidant, plasticizer, detergent in chemical sector, cosmetic industry and cleaning sector. It is also made use of in the preparation of pharmaceutical cooling down agents, ingredients for detergents, etc.

Applications in the food industry:

Citric acid monohydrate is secure and non-toxic, as well as is referred to as the very first edible sour agent. It is widely used in beverage as well as fruit handling, soy items and flavor agents.

Citric acid monohydrate is extensively utilized in jelly, sweet, a glass of wine, as well as citric acid is added to frozen food, which can reinforce the result of anti-oxidants, inactivate enzymes, and ensure the security of frozen food. Including citric acid to veggies and also fish and shellfish can inhibit the development of microorganisms and lengthen the preservation time.

This product can make soft drinks acidic because it reacts with carbon dioxide gas to form carbonic acid, which then dissolves added calcium carbonate to neutralize the gas.

Sodium citrate and potassium citrate are added to jelly, cakes and various beverages as acidulants, food additives, etc. to improve the flavor. According to statistics, about 70% of the total production of citric acid is used in the food and beverage industry.

Medical use:

The pharmaceutical industry is used to prepare ferric ammonium citrate (as blood supplement) and sodium citrate (as blood transfusion agent). And can be used as an antidote for alkaline poisoning.

Citric acid monohydrate is also widely used in various nutritional oral liquids to adjust the pH value of oral liquids, maintain the stability of ingredients, and ensure nutritional effects.

Uses in the chemical industry:

Citric acid monohydrate also has a wide range of applications in the chemical industry. Citric acid itself is a chemical synthesis intermediate and the basic raw material for chemical synthesis. Because of its excellent buildings, it is widely utilized as cleaner, stabilizer, chelating representative as well as defoamer in the chemical sector.

In shampoos, anti-dandruff shampoos and hair dyes, adding citric acid to adjust the pH value can increase hair luster and restore hair elasticity when shampooing. Citric acid is added to cosmetics and toothpaste to prevent the product from breaking down and spoiling.

Recently, with the enhancement of people’s recognition of environmental management, sodium citrate is an increasing number of widely made use of to generate ecologically friendly and eco-friendly phosphorus-free cleaning agents.

Citric acid monohydrate is used in electroplating industry as pH adjuster of electroplating solution. The printing and dyeing industry is used as a resist for varamine dyes. In addition, it can also be used as metal cleaner, grease antioxidant, concrete retarder, boiler cleaning agent, non-toxic plasticizer, pipe cleaning agent, etc.

As a chemical reagent, it is used as a sequestering agent, used to prepare buffer solutions, determine serum potassium, and determine bismuth, nitrite, oxygen and water.

In addition, citric acid monohydrate can also be used in light industry, atomic energy, environmental protection and other industrial fields, and is an indispensable raw material for cosmetics, metal cleaning agents, resins, cardboard, tobacco, electroplating, etc.