Citric Acid Powder
Citric acid
Pronunciation: SI-trik ASS-id
Clean, sharp sourness
A food-grade acid used to sharpen acidity and bring brightness to flavour systems.
Why it’s used
Some ingredients shape the story of a product directly. Others play more supporting roles in flavour, texture, aroma, or consistency. We believe both should be transparent.
Role in the blend
- Acidity
- Flavour lift
- Balance
Key facts
- Often used in very small amounts to sharpen a blend rather than dominate it
- Supports a brighter, cleaner flavour profile in tangy products
Origin & sourcing
Every ingredient begins somewhere specific. Even where an ingredient is processed or blended, we still track the supply stage, origin information, and supporting specifications as far as the supply chain allows.
- Country
- India
- Region
- Being verified
- Supply stage
- processor
- Origin status
- being-verified
- Traceability
- processor-level
- Traceability goal
- processor-level
- Transparency level
- level-2-processor-known
- Processing
- Food-grade citric acid produced and standardised for ingredient use.
- Notes
- The processor and specification are the key current traceability points for this ingredient.
Technical details
We believe full traceability includes the practical details too - how an ingredient is declared, what role it plays, and what kind of processing sits behind it.
- Label declaration
- Citric acid
- Functional role
- AcidityFlavour balance
- Processing notes
- Food-grade acidulant used in small quantities to sharpen overall flavour profile.
- Processing types
- refined
Transparency note
Citric acid is a technical supporting ingredient rather than a hero ingredient. We include it openly because full transparency matters.
Bring it into the kitchen
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