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**//__What is Citric Acid?__//**
Citric Acid is a 6 carbon organic acid found in many fruits such as oranges, limes, and lemons. It is mostly in citrus fruits, hence the name “Citric Acid”. It is a common ingredient in everyday foods such as soft drinks, and sour candies. It is used often for its acidic sour flavor.

**__Why is Citric Acid in my Food? What Purpose Does it Have?__**
Citric Acid is in our everyday foods for several reasons, one reason is because it is a great natural preservative. For example, guacamole goes brown pretty fast. One way to keep it from going brown is to add lemon juice or lime juice to it. It is also a great taste enhancer. If you ever eat fish tacos, you will know exactly what I mean. Squeezing a bit of lime on your taco can bring out the flavor, and make it taste even better. This goes for many foods, a tad bit of citric acid can be a great compliment to the taste of food.


 * __What Properties Does Citric Acid Have?__**

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Well, the most obvious properties that I already listed above, is that it is an acid and is very sour. It can also be a salt in the form of a citrate ion. The salt that is used in the preservation of foods is called Calcium Citrate. Citric Acid at room temperature is in the form of a white crystalline powder. Citric Acid is destroyed by the loss of Carbon Dioxide as well as water when it is heated to a temperature over 175 degrees Celsius.======

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The pros to using citric acid are it is a preservative, what that means is if you squeeze a lemon over say an avocado it won't brown due to the way the citric acid is affected by the air. Another pro to using citric acid is it helps breakdown kidney stones.The cons to using citric acid is it wears away your tooth enamel which protects your teeth so after a while your teeth will form cavities and basically rot. The link below will show you what can happen if you don't brush and drink too much stuff with citric acid in it.====== []

Citric acid has a positive side affect because it helps destroy stuff in your body that’s clogging you up.
The name citric acid tells us that that it is a acid and that it comes form citrus fruits such as lemons, limes and orange. There are 6 carbon atoms, 7 oxygen atoms, and 8 hydrogen atoms.
 * __//Characteristics in the name citric acid//__**

__** Sources: **__ 1. Chemistry Daily, Citric Acid, 2005 []

2. GHC Global Healing Center, Oxy-Powder, Citric Acid, 2010 []

3. Science Daily, Citric Acid, 2010 []