Calcium disodium EDTA

ingredient

About

Calcium disodium EDTA, known in medicine as sodium calcium edetate or edetate calcium disodium, is a salt of edetate carrying two sodium atoms and one calcium atom, and a member of the chelating-agent family; it binds heavy metals so that they leave the body in the urine, and came into medical use in the United States in 1953 as a treatment for lead poisoning.[1] In food and drink the same chelating action is used to hold trace metals that would otherwise degrade flavour and colour: the United States label of Mountain Dew Code Red prints it as "Calcium Disodium EDTA (To Protect Flavor)".[2]

Products (31)

Also known as

  • Sodium calcium edetate en

References

  1. Sodium calcium edetate Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-12. cc-by-sa-4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
  2. USDA FoodData Central, Branded Foods (GDSN), fdc_id 1459977, version 2021-03-19 U.S. Department of Agriculture. registry. Published 2021-03-19. Accessed 2026-09-12. Record: 1459977. cc0. Upstream: GDSN.
Last edited 2026-09-12 View history Sign in to edit

Reuse freely with credit: text CC BY-SA 4.0, data ODbL. Cite this page as Source: Barcodepedia, https://barcodepedia.com/ingredient/calcium-disodium-edta (licence).