Disodium 5?-inosinate contains approximately 7.5 molecules of water of crystallization. It is odorless and has characteristic taste. For other details of description, see Disodium 5?-Guanylate.
Reported found in beef, pork, chicken, whale, horse mackerel, sweet fish, common sea bass, pilchard, black sea
bream, pike, mackerel, mackerel keta salmon, tuna, globefish, eel, dried bonito and squilla.
Disodium 5￠-Inosinate is a flavor enhancer which performs as a
disodium guanylate does, but only when present at approximately
twice the level. see disodium guanylate.
Flavor potentiator in foods. Sodium Inosinate is a salt replacement flavor enhancer. Food additive.
Disodium 5?-inosinate is derived from mineral, animal (meat/fish), vegetable or fungal sources.
A 5
′
-nucleotide derived from seaweed or dried fish.
Sodium guanylate is a by-product.
: Moderately toxic by
several routes. An experimental teratogen.
Mutation data reported. When heated to
decomposition it emits toxic fumes of POx,
NOx, and NazO.
