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Found naturally in wine, and is responsible for some of the sharp taste of wine; it is added to many sour-tasting sweet foods. The potassium salt, cream of tartar, has many cooking applications: the potassium-sodium salt, Rochelle salt, is a mild laxative.
Tartaric acid
Tartaric acid
Occurs naturally in many plants, and is essential for vegetable and animal tissue respiration; used in baking powders, and in some fruit drinks as a replacement for
citric acid
Fumaric acid
Fumaric acid
Gamma-aminobutanoic acid (GABA)
A inhibitory neurotransmitter, ethanol binds to the same protein as GABA at a neighboring location, distorting the protein so that GABA binds more easily, further inhibiting the cell from firing: benzodiazepines such as Valium also bind to the same protein but at a different site, inhibiting the cell still further, and sometimes with deadly consequences
Gamma-aminobutanoic acid (GABA)
A water-soluble B-complex vitamin; converted by the body into Coenzyme A, which helps the body produce energy from food
Pantothenic acid
The sodium salt of the amino acid glutamate; produced in meat during the decomposition of proteins; with inosine monophosphate (IMP), one of the major substances responsible for the flavor of meat MSG is also added to some foods to enhance their meaty flavor
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Pantothenic acid
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Found in cranberries and prunes; commonly used as a preservative In baked goods, ketchup. carbonated beverages, etc.
Sodium benzoate
Sodium benzoate
Sodium propanoate
Calcium propanoate
Commonly used preservatives; found in bread, cakes, and cheeses
Calcium propanoate
used in buffers with citric acid to maintain desirable characteristics of foams and gels (Jelly. Ice cream, candy, whipped cream, etc.) by controlling the pH of the product; also used in medicines and blood for transfusions; also functions as an anticoagulant in blood
Sodium citrate
Used to treat athlete's foot (Desenex)
Zinc 10-undecylenate
ammonium benzoate
Discovered in 1958, this is the bitterest-tasting compound known; as little as ten parts per million make substances unbearably bitter to most humans. It is used as an aversive agent, an additive that prevents accidental Ingestion of a toxic substance. It is used to denature ethanol, methanol, and rubbing alcohol, and well as solvents, paints, amishes,
antifreeze, etc.
Denatonlum benzoate ("Bitrex"]
Sodium citrate
Denatonlum benzoate ("Bitrex"]
