Vitamin B9/Folic Acid
Introduction
Folic acid is a water soluble B vitamin. Since 1998, it has been added to coldcereals, flour, breads, pasta, bakery items, cookies, and crackers, as required by federal law. Foods that are naturally high in folic acid include leafy vegetables (such as spinach, broccoli, and lettuce), okra, asparagus, fruits (such as bananas, melons, and lemons) beans, yeast, mushrooms, meat (such as beef liver and kidney), orange juice, and tomato juice.
Specification
| Characteristics | Yellow or orange crystalline powder |
| Identification | Meet the requirement |
| Assay | 97.0~102.0% |
| Loss on Drying | ≤8.5% |
| Residues on Ignition | ≤0.3% |
| Related compounds | ≤2.0% |
| Heavy Metals | ≤10.0mg/kg |
| Lead | ≤0.5mg/kg |
| Arsenic | ≤1.0mg/kg |
| Mercury | ≤0.1mg/kg |
| Cadmium | ≤1.0mg/kg |
| Total Plate Count | ≤1000cfu/g |
| Yeasts & Moulds | ≤100cfu/g |
| Samonella | Negative |
| E.Coli | Negative |
| S. Aureus | Negative |
Application
1) Folic Acid can be used as a treatment of anti-tumour.
2) Folic acid Show the good effects in the development of infant brain and nerve cells.
3) Folic acid can be used as schizophrenia patients auxiliary agents, it has significant soothing effects.
4) In addition, folic acid can also used to treat chronic atrophic gastritis, inhibit the bronchial squamous transformation and prevent coronary artery sclerosis, myocardial injury and myocardial infarction caused by homocysteine.
