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Description:
Premium quality Calcium Lactate (100g). Calcium lactate is a white non hygroscopic salt extract of lactic acid. It dissolves easily and quickly in water.
It is used as a source of soluble calcium salts to react with alginate, gellan or certain kinds carrageenan to permit gel formation without heating. Use it to produce caviar, pearls, spaghetti and spheres using spherification techniques.
Because calcium lactate doesn't have much of a taste it is used as an alternative to calcium chloride in recipes - which can leave salty, bitter/metallic taste in foods. Also calcium lactate doesn't have an exothermic reaction in water like calcium chloride - so is a completely safe alternative.
Calcium lactate is recommended in all reactions of inverse spherification and reactions where alginate and calcium source are intimately mixed such as in diffuse setting or full contact gelling. Calcium lactate also works well in the production of drops, caviar pearls and all shapes of spaghetti by immersion of alginate solution in a calcium setting bath. Use in Spherification and Reverse Spherification.
How to use as a source of calcium in gelling recipes:
Use from 1 to 9% calcium lactate to provide calcium ions in setting baths for hydrocolloids that react with calcium ions such as sodium alginate, gellan gum, caragennenan iota, carageenenan kappa, pectin. This type is recommended for all applications where calcium salt will be readily mixed to other ingredients and eaten (diffusion setting, blending alginate with calcium rich solutions). It is used at 1% for these applications.
Recommended for all applications where calcium salt will be readily mixed to other ingredients and eaten (diffusion setting, blending alginate with calcium rich solutions). It is used at 1% for these applications.
Other Uses:
Can also be used to extend the shelf life of fruit by dusting it onto the surface of the fruit.
Can be used as a source of calcium fortification (maximum 10% in solution or it will precipitate).
Food Regulations:
Calcium lactate is a permitted food additive in Europe under code E327.
Storage:
Please store in dry, cool conditions and not in direct sunlight.
Keep away from heat and humidity in original packaging.
Best before: Please refer to packaging.
Shelf life of 18 months.
Food Additive Information:
This product is a food supplement or additive and is highly concentrated. Should be diluted and not directly consumed in its concentrated form.
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