ASCORBIC ACID

Ascorbic Acid

INS: 300

Function: Antioxidant, Colour Retention Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	200 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	6
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	100 mg/kg		6
06.2	Flours and starches	300 mg/kg		6
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	2000 mg/kg		6
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	400 mg/kg		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
12.8	Yeast and like products	200 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	3000 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	540 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	400 mg/kg		6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	300 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	200 mg/kg		6