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Phytic acid

Phytic acid in pure form looks as white amorphous powder without the expressed smell or taste. It is received in the conditions of laboratory and on production, influencing the parts of plants containing phytin. Молекула фитиновой кислоты

Use of phytic acid

Commercially phytic acid is used as the nutritional supplement of a natural origin known under the name E391.

In medicine phytic acid is intermediate substance in synthesis of some drugs helping at diseases of a nervous system and a liver.

The phytin peeling – clarification of skin using phytin is quite widely known. Phytic acid for these purposes is received from cake of grains of wheat. This acid softly and at the same time deeply peels skin, helps to fight against excessive pigmentation, inflammatory changes. The phytin peeling is very effective in fight against a nevus pigmentosus on a face. Pluses of this procedure in comparison with others similar are lack of such side effects as irritation and erubescence, her hypersensitivity. Phytic acid does not cause damage of deep layers of epidermis, that is is safe for skin.

Until recently phytic acid was actively applied in winemaking and production of other alcoholic beverages. Action was based on its ability to connect iron ions, clearing products of them and by that to filter and clarify wine. After emergence of the works testimonial of harm of phytic acid, its use stopped. Until unambiguous harm of this connection is disproved, sanitary and epidemiologic services do not recommend to apply it as nutritional supplement.

Content of phytic acid in products

Phytic acid contains in cereal, bean, oil-bearing crops. Especially much it is concentrated in seeds and rhizomes of bean and cereal cultures. Small amounts of phytic acid can be found in stalks and roots of these plants, and only its traces contain in leaves.

In plants phytic acid fixes the most part of the general phosphorus. To 60 – 80 its % contains in composition of this acid. In seeds of monocotyledonous plants to which also cereals belong distribution of phytic acid is heterogeneous – it is in an aleyronovy layer of grains. At dicotyledonous plants (bean, oily) phytin is evenly distributed on all grain. Фитиновая кислота содержится в злаковых культурах

Harm of phytic acid

The conducted scientific research could not confirm or disprove fully data on harm of phytic acid. And still phytic acid at its receipt in an organism is not absolutely harmless connection. Harm of phytic acid is that it is capable to connect phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and other minerals in a digestive tract by means of radio bonds. Because of it receipt of useful microelements in an organism considerably decreases that has an adverse effect on health.

For the same reason small children are not recommended to include products with phytic acid at deficit of some microelements, for example, at anemia (a lack of iron), at rickets (a lack of calcium and phosphorus).

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