| As a basic element of the human body and raw pharmaceutical material, glucose is widely used in many industries. Applications: 1. Food industry: becoming more and more important, glucose has replaced sucrose in many foods. 2. Traditional candy industry: glucose has been changed from an additive to a main material in candy making; enhancing taste and offering better nutrition. 3. Baking and beverages industry: glucose is used in the production of cakes and cold drinks as a new and high level additive to enhance taste, color and other properties. 4. Vegetable processing: with increasing demand for better vegetable processing technology, glucose plays an important role. A nutrient for vegetables, it is used in dehydration processes and for preservation. 5. Stock medicine: glucose can be added to water to make drinks for animals, and also be used as a carrier for many stock medicines. Certificate of analysis (1) Appearance: white crystal (2) Solubility: (a) Water: high (b) Alcohol: low (c) Ether, chloroform and other organic solvents: insoluble (3) Taste: sweet (4) Shows neutral reaction to litmus (5) Specific rotation: 52.0 - 53.5o (6) Acidity: 1.2ml (max.) (7) Chloride: 200ppm (max.) (8) Sulfate: 200ppm (max.) (9) Loss on drying: 9.0% (max.) (10) Heavy metal: 20ppm (max.) (11) Iron: 20ppm (max.) (12) Arsenic: 2ppm (max.) (13) Color dot: 100/50g
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