Fumaric Acid 99% Powder CAS 110-17-8

Fumaric Acid 99%

Reagent name: FUMARIC ACID
Reagent name: Fumaric acid
Summary formula: C4H4O4
Molar mass [g / mol]: 116.07
EC number: 203-743-0
CAS Number: 110-17-8
Content [%]: 99
Type: acids
Appearance / form: white powder

Fumaric acid is commonly used as a food additive to add flavor, as a coagulant, as a food preservative, and as an acid in leavening. It is one of the strongest organic acids commonly used in food, so it is important to know a bit about it. It is used for many reasons one being the ingredients fruity like flavor.

Fumaric acid is used by the pharmaceutical industry to produce alexipharmic sodium dimercaptosuccinate and ferrous fumarate, as an optical bleaching agent, in formulations for alternative medicine or as fumaric acid esters monoethylfumarate and dimethylfumarate to treat psoriasis.