Pharmaceutical industry

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Although the main reason for the use of sugar is its sweet taste, sugar has many other functions in food technology. Sugar in foods acts as a sweetener, preservative, texture modifier, fermentation substrate, flavouring and colouring agent, bulking agent.

 

Sugar is short chain, soluble carbohydrates, widely used to sweeten food products. Sugars exist is various forms, largely categorised as simple and complex sugars. Simple sugars, termed as ‘monosaccharides’, include glucose, fructose sand galactose. These sugars are made up of repetitive units of similar building blocks. Complex sugars or ‘disaccharides’, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose are made of a combination of smaller dissimilar units of simple sugars. Longer chains of sugars are termed as ‘oligosaccharides’.

 

Although sugars are found in all plants, only select plants like sugarcane and beet have sufficient concentrations of sugar which make it economical to extract the product.

 

Areas of application:

• Food industry – baked goods, confectionaries, jams, marmalades, breweries.
• Pharmaceutical Industry

Qualities:

• Sweetness
• Highly soluble

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Calcium Carbonate is an essential mineral for the healthy growth and development of livestock and domestic animals. It plays an important role in the metabolic process, retention and conversion of nutrients and regulates cell activity. It also supports healthy bone and skeleton development in young livestock. Calcium is one of the main minerals needed by animals to grow, develop and produce.

Occurring naturally in rocks as minerals – calcite and aragonite are abundantly found in the environment. This compound has multiple applications, from acting as Calcium supplement to being used as agricultural lime. In animal feed, calcium carbonate plays a vital role. Levels of calcium in regular animal diets are generally low. When an animal suffers from calcium deficiency, it results in growth and metabolic disorders. To avoid this, it is necessary to include a source of Calcium in animal diets.

Calcium Carbonate is an excellent supplement because of its ability to increase calcium absorption from diet.

 

Areas of application:

• Animal feed – calcium supplements.
• Cosmetic industry
• Pharmaceutical industry – supplements.
• Construction industry – Matt paints, building materials, adhesives, sealants, ceramics’ glazing.
• Chemical industry
• Food industry – refining of beet sugar.

 

Qualities:

• Alkaline
• Adhesive
• Sealing agent

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Glycerin is also a great additive to any bio digester feedstock that contains ample nitrogen but lacks energy content. Glycerin acts as a carbon source and as a significant energy source.

Also known as glycerol, glycerine is a simple, colourless polyol compound. Glycerine is odourless, viscous, sweet to taste and non-toxic. Comprising of three hydroxyl groups, glycerine is highly soluble in water and has hygroscopic properties. Glycerol has a triglycerides backbone, similar in structure to all lipids.

Glycerine has extensive applications in the food industry, as solvent, sweetener, preservative, thickening agent and food additive.

In animal feed, glycerine is known for its high-energy production properties. Cattle fed with glycerine-enriched animal feed improve in feeding efficiency, weight gain and yield.

 

Areas of application:

• Animal feed
• Food industry – sweeteners, solvents, preservatives, thickening agents.
• Pharmaceutical industry – humectants, lubricants, expectorants, laxatives.
• Chemical industry – syntheses intermediates.

Qualities:

• Odourless
• High viscosity
• Sweetness

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Primarily a polysaccharide, malto dextrin is most commonly used as a food additive. Widely present in soft drinks, candies and other processed food, this hygroscopic food additive is a white spray-dried powder that is either partially sweet or flavourless. It is used as an energy source in processed food products.

 

Malto dextrin is extracted from starch, usually corn starch or wheat starch, using an enzymatic process. The derivative largely finds application in breweries in improving the wetness. Sacks like potato chips, jerky, peanut butter are given their texture by use of this product. Malto dextrin also acts as nutrition supplement in several food products as it can be easily digested. It is used for similar purposes in animal feed. Apart from extensive uses in the food industry, malto dextrin is also used in the construction industry.

Areas of application:

• Food industry – food additives, nutrition supplements, gelling agents, flavours.
• Animal feed – energy and nutritional supplements.
• Construction industry

Qualities:

• Longer shelf life
• Pure
• High efficacy

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In the pharmaceutical industry Sodium citrate is used to control pH. It may be used as an alkalizing agent, buffering agent, emulsifier or as a sequestering agent.

 

Sodium citrate is a sodium salt of citric acid occurring in three possible forms – monosodium citrate, disodium citrate and trisodium citrate. The most common occurrence is in the third form, as trisodium citrate.

 

The most popular uses of sodium citrates are its applications as emulsifier, calcium sequestrant, acidity regulator and preservative, each of which is useful to the pharmaceutical industry.

 

The food industry also extensively uses Sodium citrate for gelation, emulsification, and acidity regulation in processes like cheese ripening.

 

The chemical industry employs sodium citrate as a buffer to maintain pH.

Areas of application:

• Pharmaceutical industry: emulsifiers, acidity regulators.
• Food industry: gelation agents, emulsifiers, acidity regulators.
• Chemical industry: buffers.

Qualities:

• Acidic
• Chemical buffer
• Emulsifier

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Better known as salt and also referred to as halite, sodium chloride is one of the most widely used chemicals. Present in every substance from sea water to extracellular fluid in living organisms, salt has multi-functional responsibilities.

 

Salt used in cooking for taste and disinfection. Salt is also commercially applied as food preservative to large varieties of products. Industrial processes, chemical syntheses, de-icing of roadways and laundry agents all employ salt as a major functional component.

 

Rubber manufacturing requires salt to make buna, neoprene and white rubber brands of tyres. Salt plays the coagulation role as part of these processes.

 

Prior to tarring highways and roads, salt is applied to underlying soil layers in order to elevate its firmness and minimize shifts brought on by large loads and humid temperatures. Salt is also used to rid hard water of it hardening factors.

 

Areas of application:

• Food industry – food additives, preservatives, condiments, flavours.
• Rubber industry – coagulators.
• Paper industry – bleaching agents.
• Textile industry – flocculating agents, inorganic contaminant separators.
• Chemical industry – Chlor-alkali production, soda-ash production.
• Pharmaceutical industry – intravenous electrolyte infusions.

Qualities:

• Preservative
• Coagulative

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Dextrose anhydrous is used to produce glucose injection, glucose sodium chloride injection, compound sodium lactic glucose injection, etc. As nutrition base dextrose anhydrous is the main material of fermention medium for antibiotic, MSG, vitamin, amino acid, organic acid and enzyme. It is also used raw material of microbial polysaccharide and organic solvent.

 

Dextrose or glucose is the smallest building unit, or monomer, of the starch chain of polymers. It is the form of sugar that is generally present in the body. In crystalline form dextrose has multiple uses, as filler for oral dosage or as a sweetener to render other severe tasting medicines edible.

 

Dextrose also functions as a texturiser, owing to its crystalline structure and properties well-suited for filling purposes. Anhydrous implies the state of being devoid of water. In this state, dextrose readily dissolves in water and most liquid media, increasing the body’s absorptive ability of this sugar.

 

Characteristics of dextrose include high clarity, solubility and sweetness. It’s solubility and energy conversion are responsible for its use in treating hypoglycaemia (low body sugar levels).

 

Areas of application:

• Pharmaceutical industry – treatment of hypoglycaemia, hyponatraemia and hyperkalaemia, also used in fillers, sweeteners.
• Food industry – texturisers, sweetners.

 

Qualities:

• Sweetness
• High solubility
• Texturizer

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Fundamentally, a vitamin is an organic chemical compound. Vitamins are essential for certain body processes. While some vitamins are synthesized within the body, others need to be consumed (via diet or supplements) to maintain regular functioning of the body.

 

In case of deficiencies of any of the vitamins, pharmaceutical supplements are used to prevent development of deficiency disorders, This is the most popular industrial application of vitamins.

Areas of application:

• Pharmaceutical industry – supplements.

Qualities:

• Nutrition supplements