Preservative · Ingredients & raw materials
Potassium metabisulphite (INS 224)
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Sulphite preservative (KMS) widely used in India for squashes, fruit pulp, pickles, jams, home-style sharbats and winemaking, where it controls microbes and browning. Permitted under the FSSAI SULFITES group with limits counted as SO2 for each food category, and sulphite must be declared on the label above 10 mg/kg.
Grade 2
- Food grade
- Pharma grade (IP)
Form 2
- Powder
- Crystals
Pack size 4
- 1 kg pouch
- 5 kg pack
- 25 kg bag
- 50 kg bag
Spec
- INS number
- 224
- CAS number
- 16731-55-8
- Formula
- K2S2O5
- Appearance
- White crystals or crystalline powder, sulphurous odour
- Assay
- 97% min as K2S2O5
- SO2 content
- about 55 to 57%
- Solubility
- Freely soluble in water
- Standard met
- FSSAI, FCC, IP
- Shelf life
- 12 months
- Storage
- Cool, dry, airtight container
- Usual minimum
- 25 kg
- HSN code
- 28322010
- GST
- 18%
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