E343; Magnesium Phosphates

(in 34 products)

1. Acidity Regulator / Buffering Agent - Changes or maintains the acidity or basicity of food/cosmetics.

2. Anti-caking Agent - Prevents lumps from forming in food due to excess water. They usually function as a water repellent or by absorbing excess moisture.

3. Dietary / Nutritional Supplement - Vitamins, minerals, proteins, fatty acids or probiotics that improves nutritional intake

Magnesium phosphate is a general term for salts of magnesium and phosphate appearing in several forms: monomagnesium phosphate, dimagnesium phosphate; magnesium phosphate tribasic. amorphous magnesium phosphate. Various forms have been used as laxatives and antacids. As food additives (E number 343), they are used as an acidity regulator and anti-caking agent found in salt substitutes.

They are approved to use as food additives in EU and generally recognized as safe food substances in US.

1. PubChem: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/123955

1. US FDA Food Additives Status List [2018]

- Magnesium phosphate (di-, tri- basic)

2. EU Approved Food Additive [2018]

- E343

3. Japan’s List of Designated Food Additives under Article 10 of the Food Sanitation Act

- Magnesium Monohydrogen Phosphate

4. US FDA Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) Food Substances (21 CFR 184) [2017]

- §184.1434