Overview
ORC Chem is one of the best citric acid suppliers located in the heart of Selangor. As one of the best citric acid suppliers, it supplies only the best quality to its clients.
Citric acid is a weak and organic acid that usually comes in white solids. It happens naturally in citrus fruits that are often used in an acidifier, flavoring, and chelating agent.
Chemical Function/Application:
- Food and beverages: As citric acid is one of the stronger edible acids, it’s dominantly used as a flavouring and preservative in food and beverages. You can commonly find food industries using citric acids in soft drinks and candies. In the USA, citric acid is used as a food additive. Sometimes, industries use it as an emulsifying agent in ice cream to keep the fats from separating. Sometimes they use it to caramelise and prevent sucrose from crystallizing.
- Cleaning and chelating agent: Chelating agent is the act of binding 2 metals together to make a soluble. Citric acid can be used as a chelating agent to remove and discourage buildup of limescale from boilers and evaporators. Sometimes, people use it to treat water, which makes it useful to improve the effectiveness of soap and laundry detergents. Some people use it to make cleaning agents like surface liquid cleaners to remove hard water stains from glass without scrubbing. Sometimes, people use it to dissolve rust from steel too.
- Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, diet supplements, and foods: In beauty industries, they use citric acid as an acidulant in creams, gels, and liquids. Sometimes citric acid is used in foods and dietary supplements. It can be classified as a processing aid if it was added for a technical effect (eg: chelator, viscosifier, etc). The citric acid is often present in small, if not insignificant amounts.
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