| Customization: | Available |
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| CAS No.: | 24634-61-5 |
| Formula: | C6h7ko2 |
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Potassium sorbate is a chemical additive. It's widely used as a preservative in foods, drinks, and personal care products. It is an odorless and tasteless salt synthetically produced from sorbic acid and potassium hydroxide.
Wide Application
At the moment, Potassium Sorbate has been used extensively in food, drink, vegetables in soy, tobacco, drugs, cosmetics, agricultural products, forage and other domain. Its application should become wider in the world.
As acidic preservative, Potassium sorbate is also used well in neutral food(pH6.0-6.5). The preservative efficiency of sodium benzoate will decrease clearly and have a bad taste at pH>4.
Application flexibility
Potassium Sorbate can be used by direct adding, spraying, retting, dry spraying, using in packing material and other method.
Usage
As nowadays international prime preferable food preservatives, their extent of use and reference dosage as follows:
| Item | Standard | Result |
| Identification | Conform Standard | Conform Standard |
| Appearance | White Granular | White Granular |
| Assay | 98.0-101.0 % | 100.5% |
| Acidity | ≤ 1% | PASS |
| Alkalinity | ≤ 1% | 0.55% |
| Heavy Metals (as Pb) | ≤ 10 PPM | < 10 PPM |
| Arsenic (as As) | ≤ 3 PPM | < 3 PPM |
| Loss on Drying | ≤ 1% | 0.4% |
| Lead | ≤ 2 PPM | < 2 PPM |
| Conclusion: | The product above complies with the standard of FCC-V. | |
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