Learn more about Citric Acid.
Citric Acid is a natural antioxidant and a weak organic acid. This substance, in its natural form is resembles small, translucent crystals of salt. Although this is odorless but has an acidic taste.
Citric acid is naturally found in citrus fruit like as lemon, oranges, tangerines, grapefruits. pineapples, tomatoes, broccoli, parrots, berries and …. Citric acid is also found in alcohol, medicines, health care products, household detergents.
There are a lot of reasons that shows why Citric Acid is useful, especially when adding to foods. It prevents food-induced botulism, which can be kept for a long time, especially in canned foods.
Adding this material to cosmetics will keep the product fresh for a long time and eliminate hard spots in cleaning products.
This product is also manufactured artificially. In our beloved country, citric acid production plant is located in Khorasan Razavi province and in Jovin city, which has the capacity to produce 40,000 tons of citric acid products annually.
This product is an Alfa Hydroxy Acid (AHA) , means that it has a group of Hydroxyl which attached to the Alfa Acid position. Other (AHA) include lactic acid, glycolic acid, malic acid and tartaric acid.
Citric acid, which is synthetically produced in factories, has been declared safe by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), but in some reports it has been confirmed to be allergic in some people.
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