The amount of food-grade use of glycyrrhizin

Instructions for use of glycyrrhizin; the product has a special sweetness about 250 times the sweetness of sugar extracted from licorice licorice sodium salt out, even though a 4000-diluted aqueous solution also has a sweet taste. But directly as a food sweetener, unsuitable for some food, usually with sugar, glucose; sugar syrup and other natural or in combination with saccharin; glycine; appropriate with propylene glycol, etc., only to obtain a more palatable sweetness. Japan's 1978 production of 240 tons of licorice acid, licorice raw materials imported from China and Russia, the highest year imported 12,000 tons of licorice, total sales in 1978, and for medicine; cosmetics accounted for 26%, 70% for food, for cigarettes and other 4%, mainly use in food products are: 1. In addition to improving the salty soy sauce to enhance the natural taste, can eliminate the bitter taste of saccharin, chemical flavorings have a synergistic effect. 2. pickles class and saccharin with pickled pickle brine method, you can eliminate the bitter taste of saccharin. In the curing process, less sugar can be overcome and the emergence of fermentation defeat; color; hardening and other shortcomings. 3. The product can be added to pickle flavored seasoning, seasoning seasoning powder or diet provisional time, increase the sweetness, saltiness get hostile banana, low-odor chemical flavorings other quarter. 4. miso sauce Pickled herring can play to increase the use of the product sweetness; so taste uniform effect. In the process of licorice extract, licorice get dissolved in an aqueous solution containing ammonium count the amount of sodium in the lecture concentrated under reduced pressure to obtain licorice acid disodium (C42H60Na3O16); licorice acid trisodium (C42H59Na3O16). Also used as a food additive, as miso; soy sauce sweetener. Disodium salt LD50 in mice by intraperitoneal injection of 1.44 g / kg, trisodium salt of mice were injected subcutaneously LD50 of 1.54 g / kg. As drugs, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic; as a sweetener widely used in various types of food our service hotline; 15637165082