Citrate products
Tartness |
Enhanced flavor |
Emulsification |
Buffering |
Whatever your citrates needs may be, Cargill has the citrate products to meet them. We offer three citrate products:
Each product is considered “GRAS” (Generally Recognized as Safe) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These three products may all be used in food with no limitations other than current good manufacturing practice in accordance with 21 CFR 184.1(b)(1).
You also can be confident in knowing that Cargill citrates can be manufactured to meet the monograph specifications of global pharmacopeia standards, including:
- United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
- Food Chemicals Codex (FCC)
- British Pharmacopeia (BP)
- European Pharmacopeia (EP)
- Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/ World Health Organization (WHO)*
Citrates also are certified Kosher Pareve, Kosher for Passover and Halal.*
*The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international expert scientific committee that is administered jointly by the (FAO) and the (WHO).
Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer's responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer's product and its use, and (iii) any claims made about the customer's product, all comply with applicable laws and regulations.
