What is the difference between phytic acid and sodium phytate?

Phytic acid, also known as creatine or cyclohexanol hexa dihydrophosphate, is mainly present in the seeds, root trunks, and stems of plants, with a high content in the seeds of leguminous plants, bran, and embryo of grains. The application of phytic acid is very extensive. In the food & nutrition industry, phytic acid can be used as food additives, and in the brewing industry, it can be used as a metal removal agent. It can be used to treat diabetes, kidney stones and other diseases in the pharmaceutical industry. It is widely used in the chemical, petroleum, metallurgical, and daily chemical industries. It can be used as natural antioxidants for fats, preservative agent for food and fruits, anti stick agent for polyvinyl chloride polymerization kettles, thirst quencher in medicine, additive for feed, and can also be used as a rust inhibitor, cleaning agent, anti-static agent, and metal surface treatment agent, especially as one of the important raw materials for producing inositol.

Sodium phytate is an important pure natural green additive, which forms a white hygroscopic powder and is easily soluble in water. The most prominent feature is its strong chelating effect with metal ions, strong antioxidant and color protection properties, widely used in industries such as medicine, food, daily chemical, paint and coating, printing, metallurgy, etc.

In fact, from an application perspective, there is not much difference between the two, but relatively speaking, the role of phytic acid is more specific.