acidulant

English

Noun

acidulant (plural acidulants)

1. A food additive used to increase acidity or to give a tart taste.
   • 2008, Dr. David Steen, Philip R. Ashurst, editors, Carbonated Soft Drinks: Formulation and Manufacture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62:

     Malic acid finds use in a variety of products, mostly in fruit-flavoured carbonates. It is the preferred acidulant in low-calorie drinks and in cider and apple drinks, enhancing flavour and stabilising colour in carbonated and non-carbonated fruit-flavoured drinks.

Related terms

• acidulate

Translations

food additive used to increase acidity

• Indonesian: asidulan
• Malay: pengasid
• Portuguese: acidulante m

Catalan

Verb

acidulant

1. gerund of acidular

French

Participle

acidulant

1. present participle of aciduler