Sodium benzoate (BioCAD00000230367)

plant natural products microbial natural products

Metabolite Card

Formula: C7H5NaO2 (144.0187)
SMILES: [Na+].[O-]C(=O)C1=CC=CC=C1

Synonyms [en]

sodium benzoate; BzONa; Benzoic acid, sodium salt; SODIUM BENZOATE (II); SODIUM BENZOATE COMPONENT OF UCEPHAN; Sobenate

Reviewed

Last reviewed on 2024-06-28.

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Sodium benzoate. 数据之源，洞见之始. SMRUCC genomics institute, a synthetic life researcher from China. https://biocad_registry.innovation.ac.cn/s/(-)-arctiin (retrieved 2026-01-03) (CAD Registry RN: BioCAD00000230367). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Note

Antimicrobial preservative in foods, e.g. margarine and artificially sweetened fruit preserves. Flavouring agent and adjuvant. Sodium benzoate is a preservative. It is bacteriostatic and fungistatic under acidic conditions. It is used most prevalently in acidic foods such as salad dressings (vinegar), carbonated drinks (carbonic acid), jams and fruit juices (citric acid), pickles (vinegar), and condiments. It is also found in alcohol-based mouthwash and silver polish[citation needed]. It can also be found in cough syrups like Robitussin. Sodium benzoate is declared on a product label as 'sodium benzoate' or E211.

Entity Information

DBLinks

Other DBLinks
  • CAS Registry Number: 532-32-1
  • PubChem: 10759
  • PubChem: 517055
  • ChEBI: ChEBI:113455
  • HMDB: HMDB0303720
  • NCBI MeSH: Sodium Benzoate
  • Wikipedia: Sodium benzoate
  • Wikipedia: Sodium_benzoate
  • DrugBank: DBSALT001289
  • Coconut NaturalProduct: CNP0577403.0

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