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    How to distinguish true and false potassium sorbate

    • Last Update: 2018-03-19
    • Source: Internet
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    Introduction: potassium sorbate is a kind of food additive In our life, it is also true and false So how to distinguish the true and false of potassium sorbate? The editor of this article will introduce you Potassium sorbate is a kind of food additive in people's life Potassium sorbate also has authenticity So how to distinguish the authenticity of potassium sorbate? I will introduce you in the following Potassium sorbate is made from sorbic acid and potassium carbonate by chemical reaction, in which the sorbate root and potassium ion are combined to form potassium sorbate Because the price of potassium carbonate and potassium benzoate is lower than that of sorbic acid, potassium carbonate is added in the product illegally Poor management is also a reason for the existence of fake potassium sorbate At present, the health supervision, quality supervision and other departments can supervise the quality of food additives Because potassium ion does not play a role in anti-corrosion, and sorbate is the real antibacterial factor, therefore, the current national standard of potassium sorbate should be modified and improved, and the determination index of the purity of potassium sorbate in the standard should be changed to "sorbate content" (formerly potassium ion content) In this way, the standard can be modified to identify the authenticity of the product from the product terminal, and those products with "substandard sorbate content" can be judged as fake products, so that "products mixed with potassium carbonate or potassium benzoate" cannot enter the market Potassium sorbate is made from sorbic acid and potassium carbonate Due to the simple production technology, only one step of reaction is required to complete the key process Therefore, many small business owners can master this technology as long as they study it a little, which is also an important reason for the growing number of small potassium sorbate production enterprises Due to the simple production facilities of many small enterprises, most of them only have a few houses, a reaction kettle, a mixer, a few manual sealing machines and other facilities, lack of purification devices and manual production, so the production cost is low, but the physical and chemical quality and health quality of products are often unstable For the sake of our own health, it's better to have a food safety detector in our daily life It's suggested that we should pay attention to healthy diet, and more food safety knowledge, such as: is potassium sorbate harmful to human body? This kind of knowledge is in our safety net Editor in charge: he xianrob
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