Application of calcium hydroxide in food industry

With the development of the industrial economy and the high attention to the environment, the application of calcium hydroxide is becoming more and more widely, and it has become an alternative material. It is mainly used for medicine, food, chemical industry, petroleum additives, waste incineration flue gas and sewage treatment, making bleaching powder, and used as disinfectant, acid generator, astringent agent and other fields. The calcium hydroxide is usually in white powder. Its chemical properties are stable and strong alkaline. Its pH value is as high as 12.4. It can be used as an acidity regulator in food, and plays a role of buffering, neutralization and solidification. Calcium hydroxide as a raw material can be widely used in calcium carbonate (calcium carbonate, calcium citrate, calcium lactate, calcium acid and other 200 kinds of calcium acid) production industry. During the production of konjac gel food, calcium hydroxide can solidify food, and gel, taste, color, taste and economy are all due to other alkaloids, and calcium ions can be absorbed by human body. In addition, the konjac gel food must be soaked in the liquid, so it can also act as an acidity regulator. In the processing of sugar syrup and available calcium hydroxide in acid, then adding calcium peroxide to the remaining precipitate filtered out into calcium hydroxide to reduce sugar and sucrose sucrose formation can sour, salt, sugar cane residue processing. A certain amount of calcium hydroxide can be added to the milk powder and its varieties to regulate the pH value of the milk powder, so that it can be dispersed evenly when dissolved in water, and calcium can also play a role of nutritional fortification. In other areas of food, calcium hydroxide can also be used for medicine, food additives, synthetic VC phosphate high technology biological material HA, feed additives, and naphthenic acid calcium, calcium lactate, calcium citrate, beer, sugar additives and process water treatment and other high-grade organic chemical synthesis. For the preparation of edible meat semi products, beverage products, medicine enema and other acidity regulator and calcium source can help. Calcium hydroxide has superior functional properties, and its application area has also extended from the original industrial application to the food industry. With the development of biotechnology in China now, the application area of calcium hydroxide will be more and more extensive.