azodicarbonamide

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Noun

azodicarbonamide (countable and uncountable, plural azodicarbonamides)

1. (organic chemistry) An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, flour bleaching agent and improving agent, and in foaming plastics.
   • 2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     To protest the sandwich chain’s use of azodicarbonamide in its bread, Ms. Hari posted a video of herself chewing another item in which the chemical is found: a yoga mat.

Synonyms

• azobisformamide
• E927

See also

• azodicarbonamide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia