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- noun chemistry a
dehydration product ofsorbitol having atetrahydrofuran ring and fourhydroxy groups; it is used in the manufacture ofemulsifiers
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Examples
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Sodium cyclamate is an artificial sweetener now banned in the U.S., but FD&C Red No. 2, a food dye, and polyoxyethylene 20 sorbitan monostearate, an emulsifier, are still in regular use in the food supply, according to the FDA's website.
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In this study, young rats were fed a low-fiber diet along with sodium cyclamate, FD&C Red No. 2 and polyoxyethylene 20 sorbitan monostearate individually and in combination.
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-- PEG-80 sorbitan laurate, and PEG-10 rapeseed sterol (cancer precursors) in Anew Beauty Youth-Awakening Lipstick.
Samuel S. Epstein: The National Cancer Institute Should Delay Its Collaboration With Love/Avon 2009
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Surfactants like sorbitan monooleate help the H2O and hydrocarbons stay mixed properly.
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Surfactants like sorbitan monooleate help the H2O and hydrocarbons stay mixed properly.
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By "sugary," of course, I don't mean sugar: looking through the ingredients, one finds nothing labeled as such, but plenty of palm kernel oils and sorbitan monostearate and "less than two percent of sodium caseinate."
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By "sugary," of course, I don't mean sugar: looking through the ingredients, one finds nothing labeled as such, but plenty of palm kernel oils and sorbitan monostearate and "less than two percent of sodium caseinate."
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Its constituents include butanedioic acid (a wetting agent in cosmetics), sorbitan (found in everything from baby bath to food), and petroleum distillates in varying proportions-and it decomposes almost entirely in 28 days.
Scientific American 2010
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Ingredients: flours (organic wheat bran, natural wheat protein isolate, natural oat flour), purified water, sea salt, calcium propionate (a natural baking preservative), chicory roots, yeast (sorbitan monostearate).
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Ingredients: flours (organic wheat bran, natural wheat protein isolate, natural oat flour), purified water, sea salt, calcium propionate (a natural baking preservative), chicory roots, yeast (sorbitan monostearate).
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