As a food preservative, flavoring agent, antifreeze, moisturizing agent, etc., sodium lactate has been partially used in foreign countries to replace sodium benzoate as a preservative in the food industry.
Sodium lactate has incomparable advantages over sodium benzoate, sodium citrate, and sodium sorbate. Especially in meat products, it has the following significant effects:
1. Extend shelf life: can be extended by 30% to 100%, or even longer;
2. Inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria in food such as: HT Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium botulinum, etc., thereby increasing food safety;
3. Enhance and maintain the flavor of meat;
4. As a kind of salt, it can not only reduce the amount of sodium chloride, but also sodium lactate is safer for patients with low-salt heart disease, hypertension and kidney disease.