Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Mineral Type
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Pharma & Nutraceuticals Functions
- Ingredients
- Calcium Carbonate
- Food Additive Number
- E 170, INS 170, INS 170(i)
Features & Benefits
- Food Ingredients Features
- Product Highlights
- Calcium Carbonate has been found to be safe and is used to supplement daily calcium intake. The recommended calcium intake for adults is in the range of 1,000 to 1,300 milligrams daily, depending on age, gender, and personal circumstances. It is also the most concentrated calcium supplement and has about twice as much elemental calcium by weight as calcium citrate. Therefore, it requires smaller tablets to achieve a given dose.
- Great care is taken at ERIE to maintain a high level of quality and to meet customer's expectations. A complete line of direct compression Calcium Carbonate is offered which meets California's Proposition 65 lead requirements and has extremely reliable consistency which is achieved through a continuous agglomeration system.
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Dosage Form
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
- Calcium Carbonate can be found naturally in chalk, marble, and limestone and is an active ingredient in agricultural lime.
- It is widely used in pharmaceutical applications as a cost effective dietary calcium supplement or antacid.
- It is also used as an inert filler for tablets and other pharmaceuticals.
- Calicum Carbonate is generally the most cost effective and most widely used calcium supplement. Most of all calcium supplements sold in the US are made from calcium carbonate.
- Calcium Carbonate is also used frequently in antacids.
- In addition to pharmaceutical and health applications, Calcium Carbonate is found in products such as baking powder, toothpaste, dry-mix dessert mixes, dough and wine.