Ascorbic Acid

Product Description

 Ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C, is a water-soluble vitamin that is essential for human health. It is found naturally in many fruits and vegetables, such as citrus fruits, strawberries, kiwifruit, tomatoes, broccoli, and bell peppers.Ascorbic acid has several important functions in the body. It is necessary for the synthesis of collagen, which is a protein that forms the connective tissues in the body, such as skin, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. It also plays a role in the formation of neurotransmitters, which are chemicals that transmit signals in the brain.

Specification

Introduction: Vitamin C is a colorless crystal, odourless, acidic taste. Soluble in water and ethanol. Stable in dry air, and its solution is not stable. Vitamin C takes part in many metabolism procedures in the human body, helps decrease brittleness of blood capillaries.

Vitamin C is abundant in vegetables and fruits. A water-soluble vitamin and powerful antioxidant, it helps the body form and maintain connective tissue, including bones, blood vessels, and skin

Function: Vitamin C is widely applied in many fields such as food , beverage, breeding and forage additives.

Its main functions reflected in following 5 aspects:

• Keep food, fruits and beverage fresh and prevent them from producing unpleasant smell.
  
• Prevent formation of nitrous amine from nitrous acid in meat products.
• Improve dough quality and make baked food expand to its maximum.
• Compensate the Vitamin C losses of beverage fruits and vegetables during processing rocedures.
  
• Adopted as nutritional element in additives, Feed additives.

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