Food Additives

Glycine is White crystals or crystalline powder, odorless having a peculiar sweetness. It readily solves in water, slightly in ethanol, does not solve in acetone or ethyl ether.

1.The food-grade Glycine
mainly used as nutritional supplement and food additive: It is used as a flavoring or sweetness because it is sweet. In combination with sodium glutamate, DL-alanine, or citric acid, it can be used in alcoholic beverage; as a acid corrector or buffer for the composition of wine and soft beverage; as an additive for the making of salted vegetables and sweet jams;
2.The medical-grade Glycine: 　
It is mainly used in amino acid injection solution as nutritional infusion. It can be used to patients who have digestive malfunction, or long consumptive diseases, and urgently need nutritional supplement, including those who have gastroenterotomia, severe traumatic infection, severe burns, cancer, or liver-kidney failure, It also can be used as a nutritional supplement before or after surgical operations