Potassium sorbate is a preservative salt with essentially no perfumery odor. In isolation it is a white crystalline powder with, at most, a very faint acidic or salty note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1155.
Colorless crystals.
58° soluble in water, 7° soluble in alcohol at room temperature. Insoluble or poorly soluble in oils.
Odorless, but has a bland-acidulous taste in dilute aqueous solution.
Has a bland-acidulous taste in dilute aqueous solution.
Used as a mold and yeast-growth inhibitor in food products.