CALCIUM HYDROXIDE - POWDER

Product Description

GRADE - POWDER 

Calcium hydroxide is commonly used to prepare lime mortar. 

Because of its low toxicity and the mildness of its basic properties, slaked lime is widely used in the food industry:

• In USDA certified food production in plants and livestock
• To clarify raw juice from sugarcane or sugar beets in the sugar industry, (see carbonatation)
• To process water for alcoholic beverages and soft drinks
• Pickle cucumbers and other foods
• To make Chinese century eggs
• In maize preparation: removes the cellulose hull of maize kernels (see nixtamalization)
• To clear a brine of carbonates of calcium and magnesium in the manufacture of salt for food and pharmaceutical uses
• In fortifying (Ca supplement) fruit drinks, such as orange juice, and infant formula
• As a digestive aid (called Choona, used in India in paan, a mixture of areca nuts, calcium hydroxide and a variety of seeds wrapped in betel leaves)
• As a substitute for baking soda in making papadam
• In the removal of carbon dioxide from controlled atmosphere produce storage rooms
• In the preparation of mushroom growing substrates