Sodium citrate

(AnnaLeeThal) #1

I bought a bag. Is there anything else I can use it for besides cheese sauce? My husband is super excited btw that we can now make nacho cheese sauce.

(Tom) #2

That seems to be the main thing is see it used for without pairing it with other gastronomic additives. I suppose there’s a lot of variations, like fondue and cheddar broccoli soup.

#3

It’s also used to prevent fruits from browning, like cut apple and bananas. Which is pretty useless from a keto standpoint. I wonder if it prevents avocados from browning, too, I dunno.

(Todd Allen) #4

We pick up unwanted surplus produce from a local food pantry to feed to our chickens. Rarely this will include a large quantity of still good but very ripe avocados. I’ve found if I mash them with a small amount of lemon juice and pack the mash nearly full in tall narrow glasses and pour a thin layer of lemon juice on top and tightly cover with plastic wrap it will keep for several days in a cold refrigerator. It will keep much longer in a freezer but the texture suffers a little. I’ve never tried sodium citrate but I’d expect it to be similar to lemon juice as I think it is the citric acid of lemons that prevents oxidation/browning.

#5

The citrate and ascorbate parts of the citric and ascorbic acid molecules act as chelating reductants, preventing ions, like ferrous, from oxidizing to the ferric state.

(Stephen Price (Lythix)) #6

Anyone in Australia know where to buy this magic ingredient Sodium Citrate?
Diagon Alley perhaps?

Also unsweetened dark chocolate does not exist. I think i’m the victim of some elaborate hoax. Unsweetened dark chocolate. Indeed. Next people will tell me you can only buy it in America… the land of corn syrup. Ha!

(Jane Reed) #7

I take it, then, Stephen, that the chocolate that’s sold in the supermarket where you live, to use in baking chocolate cake, is already sweetened and is milk chocolate or semi-sweet?

(Stephen Price (Lythix)) #8

All of the chocolate, dark or otherwise, that I’ve looked at shows it has sugar in it.
Never found anything in supermarkets that says unsweetened. Might be in different store or the ones I go to just don’t stock it.

(Emma Cohn) #9

It can emulsify cream so it doesn’t separate in coffee without having to blend it like a bpc.