What is the difference between natural and synthetic betaine?
The biggest difference between natural betaine and synthetic betaine lies in the different sources, the former is extracted from natural substances, such as sugar beet after sugar residue; Natural betaine has no pollution and high purity, but its resources are limited.
Synthesis is chemical synthesis, synthetic betaine and betaine hydrochloride betaine are chemical synthesis betaine products, synthetic betaine in the preparation process without separation, synthesis of by-products also enter the packaging. The synthesis principle of compound betaine is to neutralize chloroacetic acid and alkali to produce sodium chloroacetate, and then react with trimethylamine to produce betaine. After the reaction is completed,the reaction water solution is concentrated directly, and then sprayed to the corncob powder, mixed, dried and packaged with flavoring agent for sale. Due to the actual mass production, due to the reactant composition purity, temperature, PH and other environmental effects, there will be chloroacetic acid, sodium chloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid and other toxic substances,are potential hazards to animals and human body, chloroacetic acid up to 76mg/kg can be poisoned rats.
The synthesis principle of hydrochloride betaine is to neutralize chloroacetic acid and alkali to produce sodium chloroacetate, then react with trimethylamine to produce betaine, and finally produce hydrochloride betaine with hydrochloric acid acidification. Similarly, due to the separation process is complex, high cost, high environmental protection requirements, almost all enterprises on the reaction products are all recycled and concentrated, there are many toxic substances. The so-called hydrochloride betaine is acted by a large amount of sodium chloride and trimethylamine hydrochloride, but the reason why the chemical detection of hydrochloride betaine in 100%, because of the loopholes in the NATIONAL standard detection method (trimethylamine hydrochloride on the detection caused by interference). Although the quality of anhydrous betaine has made great progress, but it contains a lot of salt, its heavy metal content is easy to exceed the standard. For example, betaine hydrochloride produced by Healthy(Hangzhou) Husbandry Sci-Tech Co.,Ltd has stable quality and uniform particles, which is the natural equivalent of betaine.