What is Benzyl Acetate?
Benzyl Acetate is a colorless oily liquid and a valuable intermediate in fine chemicals. It has a fruity and jasmine fragrance. It is mainly found in natural essential oils such as ylang-ylang, orange blossom, jasmine, and hyacinth.
It is widely used in daily flavors and edible flavors.
Benzyl Acetate is a food flavor temporarily allowed in China, and can be used to prepare fruit-flavored flavors such as bayberry, apple, pineapple, grape, banana, strawberry, etc. According to normal production, the dosage is generally 760mg/kg in chewing gum, 34mg/kg in candy, 22mg/kg in baked goods, 14mg/kg in cold drinks and 7.8mg/kg in soft drinks.
Because it is miscible with alcohols, ethers, ketones, aromatic hydrocarbons and other substances, it is also an excellent solvent in the industry. It has good ability to dissolve oils, nitrocellulose and can also dissolve resins such as rosin and coumarone. Therefore, it is used as a solvent for shellac paint, alkyd resin, nitrocellulose, cellulose acetate, dyes, grease and printing inks.
Benzyl acetate is one of the most productive varieties in the synthetic flavor industry. Among the 400 famous fragrance-adding products, such as perfume, cosmetics flavor and soap flavor, its dosage ranks in the top 5. With the development of the domestic food processing industry and people's higher requirements on color and flavor of food, it is expected that the demand for Benzyl Acetate will also increase year by year.
