What are Sodium Erythorbate and Ascorbic Acid used for?
Sodium Erythorbate, and Ascorbic Acid are known as “Cure Accelerators”. When used they directly accelerate the nitrite (NO2-) conversion (actually, a reduction reaction itself) to NO. This means sodium erythorbate speeds up converting nitrite to nitric oxide, so more nitric oxide will be available to react and create the cured meat color, in a shorter … Read more