Molecular Formula | C42H63NaO16 |
Molar Mass | 846.94 |
Physical and Chemical Properties | Chemical properties white to yellowish powder. The taste is extremely sweet. Soluble in water, soluble in dilute ethanol, glycerin, propylene glycol, insoluble in absolute ethanol, ether, chloroform and grease. |
Use | Use as a sweetener, used in medicine, food, sauce products, beverages and other industries |
Raw Materials | Glycyrrhizic acid |
licorice sweeteners
Disodium glycyrrhizinate and trisodium glycyrrhizinate are two commonly used liquorice sweeteners, white to light yellow powder. The taste is extremely sweet, diluted 4000 times and still sweet. The sweetness is about 150~200 times that of sucrose. Relative molecular mass 866.92. Insoluble in anhydrous ethanol, ether, chloroform and grease, soluble in dilute ethanol, glycerin and propylene glycol, soluble in water, mice LD5050000mg/kg by mouth.
use: disodium glycyrrhizinate can be used as a sweetener for food additives, mainly used as a sweetener for foods such as soy sauce and sauce, and cannot be used in other foods.
preparation method: grind licorice root into fine powder, add 5 times the amount of water to boil and extract, filter, add dilute sulfuric acid to adjust the pH of the filtrate to make it microacidic, filter, neutralize the solid with ammonia water, filter, add acetic acid to the filtrate, at this time, precipitate ammonium glycyrrhizinate, and after filtration, recrystallize ammonium glycyrrhizinate in 70% ~ 80% ethanol. Dissolve the recrystallized ammonium glycyrrhizinate in a sodium carbonate aqueous solution, evaporate and concentrate under reduced pressure to obtain disodium glycyrrhizinate [1] or trisodium glycyrrhizinate [2].
production method
It is refined after partial neutralization of glycyrrhizin and sodium alkali.
liquorice powder is boiled with five times of water for extraction, solids are filtered out, and dilute sulfuric acid is added until it is weakly acidic. Place at room temperature until the precipitate settles, remove the upper clarification liquid, neutralize the precipitate with ammonia water after washing, filter, and add acetic acid to precipitate ammonium glycyrrhizin, recrystallize with 70% ~ 80% ethanol, add sodium carbonate according to the theoretical value Aqueous solution, concentrated under reduced pressure.