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White to cream colored powder

Sodium caseinate is a kind of water soluble emulsifier. It has the function of stabilizing, strengthening protein, thickening, foaming etc. It is also a protein nutrition fortifier. It has also been used in bread, biscuits, and other cereals. Like casein, sodium caseinate is a high quality protein source.
Sodium caseinate is made from milk protein and is hydrolyzed and absorbed to participate in the normal metabolism of the body. There is no definite chemical structure for sodium caseinate. In electrophoretic analysis, there are at least 20 different kinds of protein components. The main components are a mixture of alpha casein, beta casein and kappa casein (rather than simple proteins).

Sodium caseinate is suitable for:
1.the preparation of casein-based diets to investigate nutritional effect of vitamin E in diets for Litopenaeus vannamei postlarve
2.in an assay to determine the activity of a three-enzyme solution containing trypsin, chymotrypsin and peptidase
3.a study to investigate the effects of bovine somatotropin (bST) administration and abomasal casein infusion on nitrogen metabolism in Holstein steers
4.as constituent of blocking solution in immunoblotting.

The manufacture of sodium caseinate consists of the formation of a casein suspension, solubilization of casein using sodium hydroxide, and drying the sodium caseinate produced.

α-Casein can be an immunogen in young children, and anti-α-casein antibodies have strong cross-reactivity with insulin. This effect can explain the uncommon insulin autoimmunity, but it does not appear to progress to Type I diabetes.