Lecithin
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lecithin-188-4950675
title:
Lecithin
text:
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances, and are used for smoothing food textures, emulsifying, homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials. Lecithins are mixtures of glycerophospholipids including phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidic acid. Lecithin was first
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encyclopedia
description:
Generic term for amphiphilic substances of plant and animal origin
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin
date created:
2004-03-14T01:12:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T01:34:37Z
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