Product
Citric Acid
Citric Acid is the most widely used food acidulant, adding tartness and preserving flavour in beverages, confectionery and processed foods, in anhydrous and monohydrate forms.
- Grades / forms
- Anhydrous & monohydrate
- Documents
- TDS to view and download
Overview
Citric acid is produced by fermenting sugars with Aspergillus niger, then purified and crystallised. It gives a clean, fresh sourness, lowers pH to help preserve foods, and binds trace metals that would otherwise catalyse rancidity and discolouration. It is approved as food additive E330 almost everywhere.
It comes in two forms. Anhydrous citric acid contains no water of crystallisation and is preferred in dry mixes, powdered drinks and effervescent tablets, where moisture would cause caking or reaction. Monohydrate contains about 8.5% water and is widely used in liquid applications. Both are offered in several mesh sizes.
Applications
- 1Soft drinks, juices and powdered beverages
- 2Confectionery, jams and jellies
- 3Processed fruit and vegetables
- 4Effervescent tablets (anhydrous)
- 5Descaling and household cleaning products
- 6pH adjustment in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
Specification
| BP 2023 | E330 | USP 46 | EP 11.0 | FCC 13 | TTCA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characters | Colorless or white crystal | Colorless or white crystal | / | Colorless or white crystal | Colorless or white crystal | Colorless or white crystal |
| Identification | Pass test | Pass test | Pass test | Pass test | Pass test | Pass test |
| Clarity and Colour of Solution | Pass test | / | Pass test | Pass test | / | / |
| Assay | 99.5–100.5 % | ≥99.50 % | 99.5–100.5 % | 99.5–100.5 % | 99.5–100.5 % | / |
| Moisture | 7.5–9.0 % | ≤8.8 % | 7.5–9.0 % | 7.5–9.0 % | ≤8.8 % | / |
| Sulphated Ash | ≤0.1 % | ≤0.05 % | ≤0.1 % | ≤0.1 % | ≤0.05 % | / |
| Sulphate | ≤150 ppm | / | ≤150 ppm | ≤150 ppm | / | / |
| Oxalate | ≤360 ppm | ≤100 ppm | ≤360 ppm | ≤360 ppm | ≤25 ppm | / |
| Readily Carbonizable Substances | Not exceeding standard | Not exceeding standard | Not exceeding standard | Not exceeding standard | A ≤ 0.52 / T% ≥ 30 | K ≤ 1.0 |
| Aluminium | ≤0.2 ppm | / | ≤0.2 ppm | ≤0.2 ppm | / | / |
| Arsenic | / | ≤1 ppm | / | / | / | / |
| Mercury | / | ≤1 ppm | / | / | / | / |
| Lead | / | ≤0.5 ppm | / | / | ≤0.5 ppm | / |
| Tridodecylamine | / | / | / | / | ≤0.1 ppm | / |
| Bacterial Endotoxins | ≤0.5 IU/mg | / | Pass test | ≤0.5 IU/mg | / | / |
Specification as stated on our Technical Data Sheet, which you can download below.
Documents
PDF documents from our quality records.
Packing & storage
Packing
- 25 kg multi-wall paper or PP bags with PE liner
- 1000 kg jumbo bags
Storage & handling
Store below 25 °C in a dry place. Citric acid is hygroscopic and cakes under humid conditions.
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Questions
Citric Acid, answered.
Anhydrous citric acid has no crystal water and is preferred for dry mixes, powdered drinks and effervescent tablets. Citric acid monohydrate contains about 8.5% water and is commonly used in liquid foods and beverages, where the water makes no difference.
Commercial citric acid is produced by fermenting sugars such as corn or cane sugar with the mould Aspergillus niger, then purifying and crystallising it.
Coarse grades (8–30 mesh) flow well and cake less. Finer grades (30–100 mesh) dissolve faster and blend more evenly in dry mixes. Fine powder is used where very fast dissolution is needed.
Yes. Cosmo Chemistry manufactures and exports Citric Acid from Surat, Gujarat, India to more than 55 countries, for customers in the food ingredients industry. Send your grade, quantity and destination port for a quotation within one business day.
Every shipment of Citric Acid from Cosmo Chemistry includes a batch-specific Certificate of Analysis (COA) and Safety Data Sheet (SDS). Certificate of Origin, third-party pre-shipment inspection and destination-specific regulatory documentation are arranged on request.
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