

Potassium Chloride is a metal halide composed of potassium and chloride. Potassium maintains intracellular tonicity, is required for nerve conduction, cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle contraction, production of energy, the synthesis of nucleic acids, maintenance of blood pressure and normal renal function. This agent has potential antihypertensive effects and when taken as a nutritional supplement may prevent hypokalemia.
Potassium chloride appears as white colorless cubic crystals. Strong saline taste. (NTP, 1992)
Potassium chloride is a metal chloride salt with a K(+) counterion. It has a role as a fertilizer. It is a potassium salt and an inorganic chloride.

Name of index | FCC-V | E 508 | |
Description | Colourless, elongated, prismatic or cubital crystals or white granular powder. Odourless | ||
Content( after drying ) | ≥% | ≥99.0 ≥98.0when contains added substance(s) | 99.0 |
Solubility | -- | Freely soluble in water. Insoluble in ethanol | |
Identification | Pass test | Pass test | |
Acidity and Alkalinity | Pass test | Pass test | |
Heavy metals(as Pb) | ≤mg/kg | 5 | -- |
Iodide and/or Bromide | Pass test | Pass test | |
Loss on drying, | ≤% | 1.0 | 1.0(105 °C, 2hours) |
Sodium | Pass test | Negative | |
Arsenic(As) | ≤ppm | -- | 3 |
Lead(Pb) | ≤ppm | -- | 2 |
Mercury(Hg) | ≤ppm | -- | 1 |
Cadmium(Cd) | -- | 1 | |
Nutrition enhancers; gelling agents; salt substitutes; yeast food; it is similar to table salt to use as flavour enhancers for the agricultural product, livestock forming product, condiment, can, convenient food and so on, And also to use as enhance the potassium to prepare athletes beverage.





















