Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid

Vitamin C is one of the most productive and widely used vitamins, one of the indispensable nutrients for human beings, and occupies a significant position in medicine and health care.

In medicine, it is mainly used in the production of various pharmaceutical dosage forms and is an important drug used in large quantities as adjuvant therapy in various clinical departments. The dosage forms include tablet, capsule, suspension, oral liquid, powder injection, and water injection.

In food, as a food additive, it is an excellent and safe nutrient, preservative, and baking agent for flour processing.

In animal feed, it is mainly used as an additive to enhance the immunity of animals.

Antioxidant

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

Ascorbic Acid is a white or slightly yellow crystals or powder,a little acid.m.p.190°C-192°C,easily soluble in water,a little
soluble in alcohol and uneasily soluble in Ether and chlorofom and other organic solvent.In solid state it is stable in air.Its
water solution is easliy mutated when it meets with air.