Fumaric Acid
Product code RXSOL-19-4056-025
Fumaric Acid comes in a white, odorless crystal form and has a fruit acid taste.
Description
Fumaric Acid comes in a white, odorless crystal form and has a fruit acid taste. It is the trans isomer of maleic acid. It’s soluble in water and alcohol and insoluble in chloroform and benzene.
Application
Fumaric acid is mainly used as food/feed additives. Due to its reactivity FA is a useful material for a variety of industrial applications such as paper sizing, unsaturated polyester resins (U.P.R.), alkyd and allyl resins, adhesives, lubricants.
Precautions
Fumric Acid being widely used in food, coatings, resins and plasticizers. In the food industry, fumaric acid, used as souring agent, can be applied to soft drinks, western-style wine, cold drinks, fruit juice concentrate, canned fruit, Pickles and ice cream. As an acidic substance used as solid beverage gas production agent, it has excellent bubble durability with delicate product organization.Fumaric acid has been used as a food acidulant since 1946. As a food additive, it is used as an acidity regulator and can be denoted by the E number E297.