Preservative food grade E282 Calcium Propionate

Description

HS Code: 2915509000

Calcium Propionate

Calcium propionate is an acid-type food preservative. Under acidic conditions, it produces free propionic acid and has an antibacterial effect. It is a new, safe and efficient antifungal agent for food and feed in food, brewing, feed, and Chinese medicine preparations.

Used as a preservative for bread; pastry and cheese and an antifungal agent for feed. As a food preservative, calcium propionate is mainly used in bread, because sodium propionate increases the pH value of bread and delays the fermentation of dough; sodium propionate is often used in pastries, because the pastry’s leavening uses synthetic puffing Loose agent, no yeast development problems caused by pH rise.

As an anti-mildew agent in feed, it is mostly used as bait for aquatic animals such as protein feed, fish bait feed and complete feed. It is an ideal agent for feed processing companies, scientific research and other animal feeds.

In addition, in medicine, propionate can be made into powders, solutions and ointments to treat diseases caused by skin parasitic molds.