malic acid

English

Noun

malic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A colorless crystalline dicarboxylic acid, hydroxy-malonic acid, found in wine, apples and other fruit; it is converted to lactic acid by malolactic fermentation.
   • 2008, Dr. David Steen, Philip R. Ashurst, editors, Carbonated Soft Drinks: Formulation and Manufacture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62:

     Malic acid is a crystalline white solid (m.p. 100°C) and is highly soluble in water. […] Malic acid finds use in a variety of products, mostly in fruit-flavoured carbonates. It is the preferred acidulant in low-calorie drinks and in cider and apple drinks, enhancing flavour and stabilising colour in carbonated and non-carbonated fruit-flavoured drinks.

Synonyms

• E296 when used as an acidity regulator
• acid of apples (obsolete)

Translations

the organic acid

• Arabic: حَمْض التُّفَّاح m (ḥamḍ at-tuffāḥ)
• Belarusian: я́блычная кіслата́ f (jáblyčnaja kislatá)
• Bulgarian: я́бълчена киселина́ f (jábǎlčena kiseliná)
• Catalan: àcid màlic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘋果酸／苹果酸 (zh) (píngguǒsuān)

• Czech: kyselina jablečná f
• Dutch: appelzuur n
• Estonian: õunhape
• Finnish: omenahappo (fi)
• French: acide malique (fr) m
• German: Äpfelsäure (de) f
• Hungarian: almasav (hu)
• Japanese: リンゴ酸 (リンゴさん, ringosan), 林檎酸 (りんごさん, ringosan)
• Korean: 말산 (malsan), 사과산 (ko) (sagwasan)
• Latvian: ābolskābe (lv) m
• Macedonian: јаболкова киселина f (jabolkova kiselina)
• Polish: kwas jabłkowy m
• Romanian: acid malic (ro) m
• Russian: я́блочная кислота́ (ru) f (jábločnaja kislotá), оксиянта́рная кислота́ f (oksijantárnaja kislotá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јабучна киселина f

  Roman: jabučna kiselina f

• Slovak: kyselina jablčná f
• Slovene: jabolčna kislina f
• Spanish: ácido málico m
• Swedish: äppelsyra (sv) c, äpplesyra (sv) c
• Turkish: malik asit (tr)
• Ukrainian: я́блучна кислота́ (uk) f (jáblučna kyslotá)