Industry Uses for Erythritol

Erythritol is a low-calorie sweetener created through fermentation of corn or wheat starch. Compared to sugar, erythritol is not as sweet, measuring approximately 65% of the sweetness of table sugar. Packaged as a white, crystalline powder, erythritol is a natural sugar alcohol. Bell Chem, the Orlando food ingredient Supplier, has erythritol available to ship to our customers worldwide.

Sugar alcohols, or polyols, occur naturally in mushrooms, grapes, and fermented foods. Chemically, erythritol is shaped differently than sucrose and is not as readily absorbed into cells. In fact, more than 90% of consumed erythritol is excreted from the body without being utilized, making it an ideal additive for low-calorie foods. Those with diabetes mellitus are able to eat foods containing erythritol without a noticeable increase in blood glucose levels, due to its chemical makeup differing from sucrose.

Food Industry
Erythritol is routinely used to sweeten foods and beverages from frozen treats to sports drinks. Chewing gum, chocolate, hard candy, frozen dairy products, and fresh dairy items such as yogurt, sauces and jellies may all contain erythritol. It’s often used in beverages to reduce calories while retaining flavor. Erythritol can be found in flavored water, sports drinks, diet soft drinks, and smoothies.

Pharmaceuticals, Health, and Personal Care
The health industry finds erythritol a valuable additive for toothpaste and mouth rinses since it prevents bacterial growth. The root of tooth decay is caused by bacteria, which can form a biofilm on teeth. By adding erythritol to products, you get a sweet flavor with the power to delay cavity growth. Erythritol also has the distinction of not forming plaque as quickly as any other sweeteners, making it dentists’ top choice for periodontal therapy.

Erythritol is also utilized in the pharmaceutical and personal care industries. The pharmaceutical industry utilizes erythritol in excipients and syrups, chewable tablets, lozenges, and oral liquids. The personal care industry, on the other hand, takes full advantage of erythritol by adding it as an ingredient in deodorant, skin care products, bar and soft soaps, and bath products.

Bell Chem is the Orlando food ingredient Supplierbased in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products, including erythritol, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by contacting us online.

What is Dicalite?

Diatomaceous earth’s high functionality is due to the exoskeletons of prehistoric animals. Sound bizarre? Diatoms are tiny, silicon-based animals with outer skeletons of varying intricate designs. These tough outer coverings are all that remain of prehistoric sea life. When these remains gather in high quantities, they can be mined as diatomaceous earth. Why earth? Because, like diatoms, the earth is made of a large amount of silica. The removal of diatoms from the ground solidified the name of this extremely useful product. Bell Chem proudly stocks dicalite products that range in abrasiveness depending on the size and structure of the diatoms. Below are a few uses of water treatment chemicals supplier Bell Chem’s variety of dicalite diatomaceous earth inventory.

Diatomaceous earth heated to 1500℉ clusters the fine diatom exoskeletons together. This creates products known as “calcined” and offers a greater range of filtration permeabilities. When diatomaceous earth is heated above 1500℉, the calcified exoskeletons clump together, which transforms the normally fine grains into more varied sizes. Flux calcination changes the filtration even further by increasing the calcification agglomeration rate, thus opening the range of permeabilities. The finer the granulation, the slower the filtration rate.

• As an absorbent, dicalite is ideal for cleaning oil spills or, on a much smaller scale, for removing oil from the skin as an ingredient in cosmetics. Diatomaceous earth is more absorbent than any other commonly used material, with the ability to hold 145% of its weight in oil.

• As a natural abrasive, dicalite can be used in a range of products from toothpaste to metal polishes. Composed of silica, it has no negative side effects on the environment or the human body. Superfine granulated dicalite is ideal for facial scrubs, while a coarser grain works to scrub countertops and dinnerware.

• Anyone with animals will find dicalite a fantastic, all-purpose product. Sprinkle it in small animal pens as a natural insecticide: the insects ingest the pointed shells, which tears apart their digestive systems. Use it in feed to stop clumping and remove moisture, which gives feed a longer shelf life. 

Dicalite is a pure, natural product that contains no chemicals and is safe to use. Bell Chem carries Dicalite UF and Speed Flow for fine filtration, Dicalite 341 Flux-Calcined and Speedplus for medium filtration, and Dicalite 2500 Flux-Calcined and Dicalite 4200 Flux-Calcined for coarse filtration. Bell Chem is a water treatment chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Learn more about Bell Chem’s Dicalite products by calling 407-339-BELL (2355) to speak with one of our knowledgeable representatives.

What We Provide: Technical Grade & Water Treatment

Water comes out of the faucet clean and clear, just like it looks in a stream. However, in order to be safe for consumption, it must be treated by filtration and chemical processes. Below are the water treatment chemicals that Bell Chem offers.

Algaecides, Biocides, and Disinfectants
Though the chemical formulae may differ depending on their use, algaecides, biocides, and disinfectants all kill dangerous microorganisms. Copper sulfate and sodium bromide crystals successfully destroy algae, while Bell Chem’s inventory of chlorinated detergents excel as biocide agents.

Antifoams
Chemical reactions from water purification cause gas bubbles as a by-product. As liquid films coat the bubbles, larger and larger masses occur, effectively blocking production. Silicone in an oil dispersant breaks apart that foam. Bell Chem’s stock of 19 varieties of silica are available in powder form or as an emulsion.

Coagulants
Within a water treatment system, aluminum is a choice coagulant because of its ability to snap up loose ions. Depending on usage, aluminum chloride, aluminum oxide, or aluminum sulfate may be necessary.

Corrosion Inhibitors
Corrosion can cause failure of machinery, deposition in water, and overall loss of time and money. Inhibitors coat metal surfaces to protect clean metal or disable the properties of corroded metals. Calcium hypochlorite scale inhibitor and cyclohexylamine work in two distinct manners to inhibit corrosion.

Flocculants
Ionized polymer flocculants act to coagulate suspended solids in water. The sheer weight of the particles is then great enough to cause them to sink, or their size leads them to be caught in filters. Alum and aluminum sulfate are both effective flocculants.

Neutralizing Agents and pH Adjusters
Controlling the pH balance is imperative for a clean running system. Sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, hydrated lime, calcium carbonate, and hydrochloric acid are all prime examples of neutralizers. Hydrogen chloride adjusts pH levels to prevent lead contamination and corrosion.

Oxidizers
To quell biological and chemical oxygen demand, oxidizers convert available oxygen to carbon dioxide and water. Bell Chem’s two strengths of hydrogen peroxide work well as oxidizers, corrosion controllers, and odor deterrents.

Oxygen Scavengers
Working similarly to oxidizers, scavengers prevent oxygen from interrupting oxidation reactions. While non-volatile sodium sulfite and volatile methyl ethyl ketone are both oxygen scavengers, their reactions differ significantly.

Resin Cleaners
The chemical reactions causing ion exchange have potential problematic by-products that cause resins to become contaminated. Bell Chem stocks citric acid, sodium chloride, and potassium chloride to remedy this situation.

Scale Inhibitors
Temperature increases cause many soluble solids to float to the surface of the water. Bell Chem’s phosphoric acid works as a great scale inhibitor.

Bell Chem is a water treatment chemicals supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

Offering Kosher Products

The Jacksonville ingredient supplier, Bell Chem, carries an abundance of kosher products for its customers. Because the products we provide are not as neatly divided into the three main categories of kosher foods — dairy, meat, and pareve — they are able to be utilized with any foods under these three headings.

Kosher foods must meet stringent guidelines set forth in the Torah, or the first five books in the Pentateuch (Hebrew scriptures). These laws of God were revealed to Moses and are followed by those of the Jewish faith.

Many of Bell Chem’s products are easily identified as kosher as they are plant-based. Any animal-based products must be labeled as kosher before being added to kosher foods. If a non-kosher ingredient is used within an otherwise kosher meal, the entire meal then becomes non-kosher.

While most consumers think of kosher products as additives in kitchen prep, every step of the process of creating a kosher meal is included, from fertilizing the grass cows eat to the feed chickens consume. Knowing this, Bell Chem’s warehouse contains kosher fertilizers and feed additives that meet Torah guidelines. Likewise, any chemicals and ingredients used for cleaning and food preparation must also be kosher. Lastly, the largest category by far is food ingredients.

 Bell Chem carries products considered pareve, or neutral, meaning they do not contain meat or dairy products. However, unless these products are manufactured in a pareve facility, they may not carry a label marking them as pareve since the facility may also process meat or dairy products. Most, but not all, pareve products are considered vegetarian; exceptions include products containing oils from kosher fish. 

Pharmaceutical ingredients required for medications are all considered pareve since they are necessary for life; likewise, these products are generally in capsule or tablet form and are not actively chewed. Because they pass through the mouth without incident, they are considered kosher.

Bell Chem is the Jacksonville ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in our 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including dozens of kosher products. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

What We Provide: Personal Care

The personal care industry is a primary driver in the United States’ economy. As a personal materials supplier, Bell Chem supplies personal care companies with the purest products for this burgeoning industry.

Personal care ingredient labels have been scrutinized as closely as food labels by health-conscious consumers who seek products with as few unnecessary additives as possible. As consumers take the time to research individual ingredients, they are turning to “natural” and “organic” forms of their old favorites. They want products that perform well while giving them the greatest health and wellness benefits. Bell Chem understands consumer concerns and stocks pure products, essential oils, organic ingredients, and natural food basics.

As consumer demand for natural products increases, Bell Chem continues to expand our inventory to meet your growing needs. Whether you own a string of health resorts or manufacture personal care products, Bell Chem has ingredients to stock your shelves and satisfy your customer base. With raw care materials such as paraffin wax, cocoa powder, propylene glycol, and a vast array of essential oils, you can create perfect products using trusted ingredients.

The personal care industry boosted the U.S. gross domestic product by close to $237 billion in 2013 as it increased domestic jobs by approximately 3.6 million workers. By providing pure materials, Bell Chem has become a leader in its role as personal materials supplier. Based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando), Bell Chem has hundreds of products stocked in our 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

Using Alkaline Cleaners

Industrial cleaning is essential in the fabrication of any product. Unless parts and surfaces are properly sanitized and cleaned, products may form incorrectly or become contaminated. Many types of cleaners, disinfectants, and sanitizers are manufactured daily — but alkaline cleaners are significantly more effective than others, and the sanitation chemical supplier Bell Chem can tell you why. Alkaline cleaners may act as alkaline builder salts, chelators, emulsifiers, and surfactants. Learn how each role is played out with which chemicals below. 

• Alkaline builder salts: Depending on the metal substrate being cleaned, alkaline builder salts may include carbonates, caustic potash, caustic soda, phosphates, or silicates.

  • Caustic potash and caustic soda are highly acidic and work on hard metals. Through saponification (creating soap via reactions of alkaline materials with fatty acid lubricants), alkaline builder salts break apart grease and oils as they neutralize acids.

  • Softer metals, such as aluminum and brass, require medium alkalinity in silicate alkaline builder salts. Medium alkalinity cleansers tend to leave scale if not rinsed quickly after cleaning.

  • Phosphate alkaline builder salts are good water conditioners and are considered safe on soft metals such as potassium and lithium.

• Chelators (sequestering agents): Many metal ions adhere to surfactants, which inhibits a cleaner from working properly. A chelator clumps metal ions together, causing them to be released from surfactants.

• Emulsifiers: Adding an emulsifier to a cleaner allows fats to be broken apart before a surfactant is able to neutralize them.

• Surfactants (surface active agents): Soluble in either oil or water, surfactants lift and hold oils within a solution, helping to easily rinse oils from surfaces. Heat acts as a catalyst for surfactants, rapidly expediting the process.

Bell Chem, the sanitation chemical supplier, is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products — including alkaline cleaners — stocked in our 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

Offering Halal Products

Traditional law of the Islamic faith describes many foods as halal, or permissible; this term is often associated with Islamic dietary laws. The Orlando food ingredient supplier, Bell Chem, wishes to share information concerning the halal products we inventory for our consumers.

 Because many of Bell Chem’s products are vegetable- or plant-based, they are considered acceptable to consume in Islam’s dietary laws. Products containing blood, alcohol, or pork are unacceptable (haram) and cannot be an ingredient in any consumable product or cosmetic. Knowing this, Bell Chem strives to stock permissible products for all of its consumers. Large food companies now offer processed and packaged foods meeting Islamic standards, which means the individual ingredients must also be halal. When a food contains ingredients or chemicals of unknown origin, the entire meal must be considered haram, or at least questionable. Likewise, any essential oils with an alcohol base are unacceptable.

​In short, halal dietary laws are somewhat similar in ​scope to Jewish kosher. In meeting the requirements of these laws, Bell Chem is able to offer ingredients and chemicals to its consumers to allow them to create acceptable foods and beverages. Some of Bell Chem’s more popular ingredients meeting Islamic dietary laws are ascorbic acid, biotin, citric acid, fructose crystalline, honey, lecithin, niacin, pectin, vanillin (but not as an essential oil containing alcohol), and food yeast.

​​Bell Chem, an Orlando food ingredient supplier, is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products — including halal products, ingredients, and chemicals — stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. By partnering with Bell Chem, you can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

What We Provide: USP Ingredients

In order to provide our customers with the purest chemicals and ingredients on the market, the nutritional ingredient supplier, Bell Chem, ensures that every product undergoes stringent standards set forth by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Incorporated (USP). This scientific, nonprofit organization was founded in 1820 to provide guidelines on the identity, given strength, quality, and purity of ingredients, supplements, and medicines in every stage of manufacture and distribution.

When the USP merged with the National Formulary and Drug Standards Laboratory (NF), they published safety standards in their USP-NF guidelines. These guidelines defined drugs, their dosages, and guidelines on compound preparations. The USP-NF is updated and published yearly to meet the growing trends and discoveries of chemistry and biology. Their acquisition of the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) in 2006 added a compendium of purity and identification standards of foods and chemicals that is recognized internationally.

The rigorous testing of ingredients and chemicals to meet the USP grade standards means Bell Chem’s customers receive products that they can trust every time. Not only are the ingredients pure, but the manufacturing facilities must also meet these stringent guidelines. Bell Chem offers a wide array of USP chemicals and ingredients for the manufacture and distribution of food and beverages, reagents, nutritional supplements, and personal care.

From acesulfame potassium to zinc sulfate, the nutritional ingredient supplier Bell Chem has USP ingredients to strengthen your inventory and ensure that your customers are receiving the purest ingredients. Bell Chem is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products — including USP ingredients — stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.

Utilizing Pro OXINE 5%

Pro OXINE 5%, a staple in water treatment chemical supplier Bell Chem’s expansive inventory of products, has long been recognized as being advantageous over chlorine and other sanitizers when used in municipal drinking water supplies. Its disinfectant qualities hinder microbial growth, including all major pathogens. Below are just a few of the ways Pro OXINE can be utilized:

• Biofilm control and removal: If you leave water standing for a few days, it develops a slick, tinted film around the container. as well as on the water’s surface. This is biofilm, or microorganisms joined in an extracellular matrix. Add Pro OXINE to water after biofilm forms and the microorganisms will die; add it to water beforehand to prevent biofilm.

• Sanitation of freezers and cold rooms: Microbes living below freezing temperatures are hardy and difficult to manage without Pro OXINE.

• Dairy water additive: Milk is bottled, cooled, then pasteurized in water after it is pumped from cows. Pro OXINE is added to the water as a sanitizer.

• Odor removal: Pro OXINE removes bacteria and mold from industrial facilities that produce noxious odors. It also oxidizes the strong, sulfur-hydrogen atomic odors associated with skunks, effectively eliminating the odor.

• Rail and tank truck sanitizers: The interior of liquid cargo containers is quickly sanitized with Pro OXINE after each load is emptied.

• Produce wash: Because it is organic, Pro OXINE is a safe wash for fruits and vegetables.

• Food preparation sanitizer: Spray food prep surfaces with Pro OXINE before and after food is handled.

• Cleaning poultry houses: After all areas are cleaned with detergent, spray Pro OXINE on surfaces to sanitize and destroy microbes.

• Sanitizing animal tools: Tack, halters, crates, brushes, bowls, and any other animal tools are sanitized with Pro OXINE combined with citric acid. Together, these chemicals work to kill bacteria, fungi, spores, and a variety of deadly viruses, including salmonella, Parvovirus, and E. coli.

Pro OXINE 5% has been around for a number of decades, but has not been in wide use until recently due to rigorous testing. Bell Chem is proud to offer Pro OXINE in its lineup of fine products.

Bell Chem is a water treatment chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products for human and animal use, such as Pro OXINE, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us a message.

Crystalline Fructose and the Food Industry

Most people automatically associate crystalline fructose with its sweet flavor, but this versatile food additive is so much more! Bell Chem, the nutritional ingredient supplier, believes your business will benefit from the addition of crystalline fructose to your ingredient inventory. It serves as a fermenting agent, nutritional supplement, texture enhancer, and preservative, and so much more.

• Catalyst: Crystalline fructose expedites fermentation in baked goods.

• Humectant: When added to breads, cakes, and other delicacies, crystalline fructose holds the water within the food, thereby extending the shelf life since the food does not dry out as quickly. When compared with other sugar humectants, crystalline fructose is the most soluble and provides the greatest resistance to crystallization.

• Nutritional supplement: Athletes often need a quick energy boost to defray the constant loss of calories as they play on the field. When crystalline fructose is added to energy drinks, it replaces lost calories and keeps athletes performing at their maximum. Many pharmaceutical products contain crystalline fructose for similar purposes.

• Sweetener: The obvious purpose of crystalline fructose is a sweetener. Much as salt brings out the flavors of different foods, crystalline fructose maintains flavors of candied fruits by adding an estimated 15% flavor enhancement to caramels, chocolates, and fruits in particular. Crystalline fructose is often added to wines to improve flavor without altering the natural aroma and taste. Additionally, the low glycemic index of crystalline fructose gives it a starring role in low- and reduced-calorie and reduced-sugar foods and beverages.

• Texturizer: Ice cream owes much of its texture to crystalline fructose.

Foods and beverages enhanced with crystalline fructose are sweeter, maintain a longer shelf life, and have a better texture. Bell Chem, a nutritional ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando), has hundreds of products, such as crystalline fructose, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.