Sodium Citrate

Sodium Citrate is the sodium salt of Citric Acid. It has a sour and salty taste. It is commonly known as sour salt, buffer salt or trisodium citrate and is mainly used for flavouring food and drinks or as preservative. A useful quality of Sodium Citrate is that it reduces the acidity of foods and liquid solutions, so it allows spherification and reverse spherification with strongly acidic ingredients. It dissolves easily and acts instantaneously. A highly soluble powder.