Ethyl Maltol

Ethyl maltol is a flavor enhancer and multifunctional modifier, which is extracted from sideline agricultural product such as corncob with advanced synthetic technology. It has a remarkable effect on improving and increasing the flavor and taste of the product and also removes the uncomfortable taste or smell such as bitter, irritation, sourness and fish. It can be widely used in various lines such as perfume’s composition, cigarettes, wines, drinks, ice-cream, candies, chocolates, biscuits, bread, canned food, meat processing, toothpaste, medicine and cosmetic and so on.

“Fruit-like Flavor” Ethyl maltol has remarkable fruit flavor and improves and increases the fruit-sweet flavor and the taste of the product and also removes the uncomfortable taste or smell such as bitter, irritation and tartness. It can be widely applied to dried fruit produce, nature fruit juice, beverage, wine, milk products, soy sauce, herb medicine, cosmetic and all kind of flavor and fragrance compound, special effect on tobacco flavor.

“Burnt-like Flavor” Ethyl maltol has strong caramel-sweet flavor and enhances the sweet fragrance and delicious taste. It can be widely applied to meat process, canned food, seasoning, candy, biscuit, bread, chocolate, coco product, oatmeal, betelnut and feedstuff. Specially in the meat process, ethyl maltol has reaction with amino acid of the meat and greatly improves the aroma and delicious taste of the meat, so it begins to be used more and more in the restaurant and fast food.

Specification:

Appearance: A white, crystalline powder, a characteristic odor and a sweet, fruit-like and burnt-like flavor in dilute solution.

ITEM	SPECIFICATION	TEST RESULT
Appearance	White powder or needle crystal	Conform
Odor	Characteristic odor and sweet, fruit like flavor in dilute solution	Conform
Assay %	>99.2	99.8
Melting point °C	89.0-92.0	90.3
Arsenic (As) ppm	<2	<2
Heavy metal (Pb) ppm	<10	<10
Lead (Pb) ppm	<5	<5
Loss on drying %	<0.3	0.062
Residue on ignition %	<0.1	0.01

Packing: 25kg/drum, Sealed by polyethylene bag inside

Storage: Keep in a cool and dry place. Avoid being store in iron containers. Protect from light and keep containers closed. Avoid contamination from other special smell.