What is glycine?

 
  Glycine is known as amino acetic acid. Its chemical formula is C2H5NO2, which is a white solid under normal temperature and pressure. It is the simplest amino acid in the amino acid series, which is unnecessary to human body.
 

Physical Properties:

  White or almost white crystalline powder. Odorless, has a special sweet taste.
 
  Glycine has a unique sweet taste, which can moderate acid and alkali flavors, mask the bitterness of saccharine added to foods and enhance sweetness.If the amount of glycine ingested by human body is too much, it cannot be absorbed and utilized by human body, and it will break the balance of amino acid absorption by human body and affect the absorption of other amino acids, resulting in nutrition imbalance and affecting health.Glycine as the main raw material for the production of dairy beverages, teenagers and children's normal growth and development is easy to bring adverse effects.

What glycine used for?

 
  Glycine can use in many aspects such as food, pharma, feed, industry and so on.
 
 

• Food industry:

1. Nutritional supplements. Mainly used for seasoning and other aspects.

2.  Flavoring and alanine are used together in alcoholic drinks, adding amount: 0.4% wine, 0.2% whiskey, 1.0% champagne.Other such as powder soup added about 2%;1% of pickled food.Because it can be a certain degree of shrimp, cuttlefish flavor, can be used for sauces.

3.  It can inhibit the reproduction of bacillus subtilis and escherichia coli.Therefore, it can be used as the preservative of minced fish products and peanut butter.

4. It's a buffer against salt and vinegar.The addition amount is 0.3%~0.7% for salted products and 0.05%~0.5% for acid products.

5. Antioxidant action (using its metal chelation) added to cream, cheese and margarine can extend the storage life by 3-4 times.To stabilize lard in baked foods, 2.5% glucose and 0.5% glycine can be added.Instant noodles with wheat flour add 0.1%~0.5%, at the same time can play the role of seasoning.

• Pharmaceutical

1. Used in medical microbiology and biochemical amino acid metabolism research.

2. Used as a buffer for aureomycin, anti-parkinson's disease drug .

3. Used as raw material for cephalosporin;Sulfoxycin intermediate;Synthesis of imidazoacetic acid intermediate and so on;

4. Used as a cosmetic raw materials.

• Feed additives

 

  It is mainly used as an additive and attractant to increase amino acids in the feed of poultry, livestock and poultry, especially pets.Used as hydrolyzed protein additive, as hydrolyzed protein synergist.
 

• Industry

 

  As a pesticide intermediate, such as the main raw material of herbicide glyphosate; Electroplating bath additive;PH regulator, etc.
 

• Storage:

  Sealed storage, using plastic bags, outer polypropylene woven bags, sacks or round wooden drums packaging, 25kg a package.Store in a cool, dry, ventilated place.
 
  Above all, it has many uses in industry.