Manufacturers add ethyl butyrate to their orange juice to make it taste fresher.
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Butyrate
Synonyms for "butyrate" (2 found)
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Bulgarian
1 entries- бутира́т noun (any salt or ester of butyric acid)
Czech
1 entries- máselnan noun (any salt or ester of butyric acid)
Japanese
1 entries- 酪酸塩 noun (any salt or ester of butyric acid)
Polish
1 entries- maślan noun (any salt or ester of butyric acid)
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This may be detected, according to G. Heppe, by slowly heating the oil in a dry test-tube with a small piece of copper butyrate to about 338° F., taking care that the temperature does not exceed 356° F.
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It is butyrate, however, which is the fatty acid of most importance to the colonic epithelial cell. Apart from being an important respiratory fuel for the colonocyte, butyrate has remarkably diverse properties in a wide range of cells.
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Another question to be raised is the possible use of butyrate in the lipogenic pathway. Even though the carbons from butyrate could be incorporated into lipid extracts [12], this incorporation represents less than 1 % of CO₂, and TKB productions.
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