Calcium Gluconate
- Content: 98.5-102.0% w/w
- Reducing substances: max. 1.0% w/w
- Chloride: max. 0.07%
- Sulfate: max. 0.05%
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Description
Calcium Gluconate
Honghui brand Calcium gluconate is white crystalline or granular powder, odorless, tasteless and soluble in boiling water (20g/100ml), slightly soluble in cold water (3g/100ml, 20℃), do not dissolve in organic solvents. Aqueous solution was neutral (pH about 6-7).
-Chemical name: Calcium gluconate
-Standard: Food grade FCC
-Appearance: Powder or crystalline powder
-Color: White
-Odor: Odorless
-Solubility: Soluble in boiling water
-Molecular formula: C12H22CaO14·H2O
-Molecular weight: 448.39g/mol
Technical data
| Test Content | Index | Test results |
| Calcium gluconate(as anhydrous), % | 99.0-102.0 | 99.5 |
| Loss on drying, % | Max.2.0 | 1.2 |
| Reducing sugar, % | Max.1.0 | 0.3 |
| pH(5% v/v solution) | 6.0-8.0 | 6.7 |
| Chloride, ppm | Max.500 | ＜500 |
| Sulfate, ppm | Max.500 | ＜500 |
| Heavy metals as Pb, ppm | Max.10 | ＜10 |
| Arsenic, ppm | Max.2 | ＜2 |
Application
Application area:Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Nutrition Health, Others industries
Typical applications:Calcium fortifier, nutrition agent, buffering agent, curing agent.
Calcium gluconate is used to prevent and to treat calcium deficiencies.
Also applies to low blood calcium caused convulsions and magnesium poisoning.
As a food additive, it used as a buffering agent, a curing agent, a chelating agent, nutritional supplements. According to the Ministry of Health issued the "food fortifier use of health standards" (1993), and its products can be used for cereals, beverages, at a dosage of 18-38 g /kg.
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