Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar)

E336
Hazard level: No known concerns Antioxidant / acidity regulator (E300–399)

What is Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar)?

Natural by-product of winemaking used as a raising agent and stabiliser in egg whites.

Is Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar) safe?

Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar) has no known health concerns in the amounts typically used in food.

Score impact: No penalty on the FoodsScan score (FoodsScan scores run 0–100, where 100 is best.)

Found in 28 of 12,846 analysed products in the FoodsScan database.

Regulatory sources: EFSA, FDA

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Also known as

Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar) is also known as e336, cream of tartar, калиев тартарат, калиеви тартарати, potassium tartrate — these all refer to the same ingredient.

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Where Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar) is typically found

Snacks Sweet Snacks Biscuits And Cakes Cakes Cooking Helpers

Related additives

Salt (Sodium Chloride) wheat Sugar (Sucrose) Sodium Carbonates (Baking Soda) (E500) Soy Lecithin Natural Flavouring Ammonium Carbonates (E503) Cocoa Mass (Liquor) Palm Oil Cocoa Butter Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (E300) Sodium Ascorbate (E301) Calcium Ascorbate (E302) Ascorbyl Palmitate (E304) Tocopherol (Vitamin E) (E306) Alpha-Tocopherol (Synthetic Vitamin E) (E307)

Products containing Potassium Tartrate (Cream of Tartar)

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