Dicalcium Phosphate is a calcium phosphate salt of phosphoric acid with the formula: CaHPO4. It is a common additive/ ingredient of products primarily involved in the agriculture (feed ingredient), food, personal care, and medicinal (pharmaceutical additive) industries.
Products that may contain dicalcium phosphate include: tooth paste, pills and tablets, vitamins, chicken feed, and various cosmetic skin products.
Agriculture, Food & Medicinal Applications
Dicalcium phosphate provides animals with the necessary calcium and phosphorous required in their diets. For similar reasons, it is also added to certain cereals, pet edibles, and can even be bought as a dietary supplement.
Personal Care & Cosmetics
Dicalcium phosphate is useful in the personal care department for its opacity, bulking capabilities, and its ability to affect the overall pH of the product. It can be found used in tooth pastes, deodorants, cosmetic foundations, eye makeup, blushes, and other such types of skin care products.
Dibasic calcium phosphate is mainly used as a dietary supplement in prepared breakfast cereals, dog treats, enriched flour, and noodle products. It is also used as a tableting agent in some pharmaceutical preparations, including some products meant to eliminate body odor. Dibasic calcium phosphate is also found in some dietary calcium supplements. It is used in poultry feed. It is also used in some toothpastes as a tartar control agent.
Dicalcium Phosphate is used as a raw material source of phosphorus in the production of feeds and animal nutrition correctors. With this mineral-sourced phosphate in their rations, the needs of high producing animals are covered, improving performance in growth, fertility and conversion indexes. Phosphorus is essential to, among other processes, ATP formation, nucleic acid synthesis and bone formation.