Food Preservative: Ammonium Acetate

Ammonium Acetate is a useful preservative (food additive) for processed foods, particularly meats.

As a food preservative, it's considered an antioxidant and an acidity regulator.

Acidity regulators are food additives that maintain (or even change) the acidity or basicity (referring to pH) of foods, which ultimately helps keep them fresh longer.

It can also go by the name "acetic acid ammonium salt."

Ammonium acetate is a white, granular solid that's relatively hygroscopic, which means that it can readily absorb moisture from the air.

Ammonium acetate has the chemical formula CH₃COONH₄ (like water has chemical formula H₂O, carbon dioxide has CO₂, and ordinary table salt has NaCl).

This is a common property among many food ingredients and is mentioned on other pages on our site (dextrose monohydrate, for example).

This information is useful important when determining storage considerations for ammonium acetate.

A dry, temperature controlled warehouse is ideal, like ours here at Cooperative Purchasers.

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