Dimethyl dicarbonate

Study type not stated

• Open question

  Keeping juice fresh³

  In mulberry juice, dimethyl dicarbonate with high pressure homogenization stopped microbes growing during cold storage, but lowered some antioxidants.

• Open question

  Juice quality after treatment⁴

  Dimethyl dicarbonate kept fermented litchi juice tasting better and retaining more nutrients than heat treatment.

How it’s made and used

• Wine yeast control⁵

  In red wine, dimethyl dicarbonate killed several yeast species at low levels, but not lactic or acetic acid bacteria.

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