English Name: L-Methionine

CAS Number: 63-68-3
Molecular Formula: C5H11NO2S
Molecular Weight: 149.21

Product Properties:

Colorless or white, shiny flake crystalline or white crystalline powder. Slightly peculiar smell. The taste is slightly bitter. Melting point 280-281 degrees (decomposition). It is unstable with strong acids and can lead to deactivation. Soluble in water (5.6g/100ml, 30 degrees), warm dilute ethanol, alkaline solution and dilute inorganic acids. Insoluble in ethanol, almost insoluble in ethanol.

Product Usage:

Nutritional supplements. It is a limiting amino acid in plant foods such as oats, rye, rice, corn, wheat, peanut flour, soybeans, potatoes, spinach, etc. Add to the above foods to improve amino acid balance. The amount required varies with cystine intake.

L-methionine is one of the essential amino acids for the growth of poultry and livestock, and is the "backbone" amino acid for biosynthetic proteins, which has a strong regulatory effect on animal metabolism and is widely used in medicine, food, feed and cosmetics. Among them, it can be used as the main component of amino acid infusion and compound amino acids in the medical face, and can also be used to synthesize medicinal vitamins, using its anti-fatty liver effect, which can be used to produce hepatoprotective preparations; In terms of food, it can be used as a nutritional supplement for amino acid fortification of food and the processing of food and health products, and is only used for fish cake products due to its special smell.