Calcium tartrate

Calcium tartrate is a byproduct of the wine industry, prepared from wine fermentation dregs. It finds use as a food preservative. Like tartaric acid, calcium tartrate has two asymmetric carbons, hence it has two chiral isomers and a non-chiral isomer. Most calcium tartrate of biological origin is the chiral levorotatory (–) isomer.

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