Healthy Disodium Succinate with High Quality

• CAS No.: 150-90-3
• Color: White
• Appearance: Powder
• Transport Package: Paper
• Specification: large
• Trademark: china
• Model NO.: E1422
• Origin: China
• HS Code: 2930400000
• Production Capacity: 5000kg/Year

Product Description

Disodium succinate is the disodium salt of succinic acid that can be used as a flavor enhancer in food for its unique seafood flavor and synergy with other common flavor enhancers to boost the umami flavor, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), disodium 5'-ribonucleotides (I+G) and hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). Generally, this food additive is safe, natural or synthetic, vegan, halal, kosher and gluten-free.

Natural Source

Disodium succinate is commonly found in shellfish, shrimp, crab and other crustaceans seafood. It is an important ingredient that makes the umami taste of seafood, it also presents in mushrooms. 

Two Types

Disodium succinate crystalline has two types, anhydrous (CAS number 150-90-3) and hexahydrate (CAS number 6106-21-4, contains six crystal water), the latter is the most used than the former in food. Disodium succinate hexahydrate can be converted to disodium succinate anhydrous after lose the water at 120 °C. The enhancing flavor powder of anhydrous is about 1.5 times that of hexahydrate.

How is Disodium Succinate Made?

Disodium succinate is synthesized between the reaction of succinic acid and sodium carbonate or The following is a brief 4 steps manufacturing process (¹): 

• Heating the solution sodium carbonate solution or (with a concentration of 30%) to 65 °C. 
• Adding succinic acid to the solution under stirring. The quantity of sodium carbonate or should be excessive, otherwise, monosodium succinate would be obtained.
• Decolorization and filtering.
• Spray-dried into a powder.

This additive can also be divided into bio-based and chemical synthesized according to the manufacturing process of the raw material - succinic acid. It is bio-based if produced from fermentation or chemical synthesized from

Specification

Appearance

Odorless, crystalline powder or granular, with a special shellfish taste. 

Other Names

• Sodium succinate hexahydrate
• Sodium succinate
• Butanedioic acid, disodium salt
• Disodium butanedioate
• Succinic acid, disodium salt
• Sodium succinate dibasic

Chemical formula and molecular weight

• Anhydrous: C4H4Na2O4, 162.06
• Hexahydrate: C4H4Na2O4·6H2O, 270.15