The chelating agent EDTA powder is also known by other labels such as CaEDTA, EDTA CaNa2. If you have a fondness for long words, you may want to know its long name ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid calcium disodium. Or you simply think: "This substance better be something to justify such long name." Good enough, it is very useful for various uses.

In medicine, EDTA powder is used as an effective detoxification agents as it discharges heavy metal compounds, lead, cadmium, and mercury to prevent them from damaging the body. Our body needs many minerals and metals such as copper, iron, chromium, zinc, aluminum, nickel and others. However, these same items can do harm than good when they occur in excess or are located at the wrong places. Thus, CaEDTA removes them before they become toxic, producing the harmful free radicals that can lead to many illnesses. In this way, this crystalline  can help prevent cancer, diabetes, atherosclerosis and other disorders associated with aging.

Patients suffering with hypertension are more likely to have high levels of lead and cadmium. EDTA powder is responsible for reversing various forms of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, arrhythmias and angina pectoris. Not only that, it also reduces cholesterol and unclogs strategic blood vessels in the heart, legs and neck, where surgery is not recommended. For this reason, this white, odorless, crystalline is placed in blood tubes in the laboratory to avoid premature blood clotting.

EDTA powder plays a crucial hand in keeping many canned foods preserved. It is used to preserve the flavor of canned soda to preserve the color of canned white potatoes, cooked and canned beans, canned clams cooked and processed, pinto beans, delaying the formation of struvite in crabmeat to preserve, mayonnaise, margarine and spreads, drink and broke prevent the fermentation of malt.



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