**The Primary Products business (bulk sweeteners, acidulants, industrial starches, personal care, co-products, ethanol) has been rebranded as Primient from 1 March 2022. It remains wholly owned by Tate & Lyle until the agreed sale of a controlling interest to KPS has closed. This is expected to happen beginning of April 2022. Read the full details of the sale here >
Malic acid has a clean, smooth taste, and persistent sourness, allowing it to be blended with multiple food acids, sugars, high intensity sweeteners and flavours to create unique taste experiences. Highly soluble, with a low melting point,malic acid can be easily incorporated into molten confections. It can be used to form economical acidulants, or tart-tasting flavour blends.
Malic acid provides a unique smooth, tart flavour. It provides quick dissolution and flavour enhancement in your applications.
Enhance fruit flavours, improve pH stability and mask the aftertaste of some salts in your beverage formulations. Malic acid's extended sourness also masks low-calorie sweetener aftertaste.
Add prolonged tartness to hard, soft and sugarless candies, as well as chewing gum.
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Add to buffer pH, improve taste, provide acidity, and chelate metal ions.
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Malic acid is suitable for use in a range of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Add to buffer pH, improve taste, provide acidity, and chelate metal ions.
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