Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate

E number E482INS 482(i)CAS 5793-94-2

Used as an emulsifier — Codex also lists it as flour treatment agent, foaming agent, stabilizer.

Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate is a dough strengthener and whipping agent, used in bread, cake mixes and whipped toppings. It does much the same job as the sodium form.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
Jurisdiction	Status	Scope and limits	Citation
United StatesFood and Drug Administration	Permitted, with conditions		21 CFR 172.844retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA	Permitted, with conditions	41 food categories highest permitted level 10,000 mg/kg Show every food category 01.1.4 Flavoured Fluid Milk Drinks — 1,000 mg/kg 01.3.2 Beverage whiteners — 3,000 mg/kg 01.4.4 Cream analogues — 5,000 mg/kg 01.6.5 Cheese analogues — 2,000 mg/kg 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) — 5,000 mg/kg 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats — 300 mg/kg 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads — 10,000 mg/kg 02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions — 3,000 mg/kg 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 — 5,000 mg/kg 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet — 5,000 mg/kg 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries — 2,000 mg/kg 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk — 2,000 mg/kg 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, incl. fruit-flavoured water-based desserts — 5,000 mg/kg 04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds — 5,000 mg/kg 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3, and 05.4 — 5,000 mg/kg 05.3 Chewing gum — 2,000 mg/kg 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit), and sweet sauces — 2,000 mg/kg 06.2.1 Flours — 5,000 mg/kg 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats — 5,000 mg/kg 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products — 5,000 mg/kg 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products — 5,000 mg/kg 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) — 6,000 mg/kg 07.1.1.1 Yeast-leavened breads and specialty breads — 3,000 mg/kg 07.1.1.2 Soda breads — 3,000 mg/kg 07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers — 3,000 mg/kg 07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English muffins) — 5,000 mg/kg 07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs — 5,000 mg/kg 07.1.5 Steamed breads and buns — 3,000 mg/kg 07.1.6 Mixes for bread and ordinary bakery wares — 5,000 mg/kg 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes — 5,000 mg/kg 08.2.2 Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts — 2,000 mg/kg 08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products — 2,000 mg/kg 10.2.1 Liquid egg products — 500 mg/kg 10.2.2 Frozen egg products — 500 mg/kg 10.2.3 Dried and/or heat coagulated egg products — 5,000 mg/kg 12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, onion dips) — 2,500 mg/kg 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy) — 2,500 mg/kg 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) — 2,000 mg/kg 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction — 2,000 mg/kg 14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol — 8,000 mg/kg 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) — 5,000 mg/kg	CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 482(i)and 40 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Made by reacting stearic acid with lactic acid and neutralising with calcium. The stearic acid may be of plant or animal origin.

Vegan status depends on the source
Vegetarian status depends on the source
May raise a halal question
May raise a kosher question

This is not an omission. What this additive is made from is not fixed — depending on the manufacturer it may be plant, animal or microbial in origin, nobody is required to say which, and the same product can change source between production runs. Ask the manufacturer if it matters to you; a label cannot answer it.

CAS registry number: 5793-94-2
InChIKey: OEUVSBXAMBLPES-UHFFFAOYSA-L
PubChem: CID 22037

Every name it appears under

25 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

E number

E482

INS number

482(i)

CAS registry number

5793-94-2

As it appears in regulation

Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate

Other names

Calcium 2-(1-carboxyethoxy)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyloctadecanoate
Calcium alpha-(alpha-(stearoyloxy)propionyloxy)propionate
Calcium bis(2-(1-carboxylatoethoxy)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyl) distearate
calcium bis(2-{[2-(octadecanoyloxy)propanoyl]oxy}propanoate)
Calcium stearoyl lactate
Calcium stearoyl lactylate
Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate
CALCIUM STEARYL-2 LACTYLATE [MI]
CALCIUM STEARYL-2-LACTYLATE
Calcium verate
calcium;2-(2-octadecanoyloxypropanoyloxy)propanoate
calciumbis(2-(1-carboxylatoethoxy)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyl)distearate
E 482
INS NO.482(I)
INS-482(I)
Octadecanoic acid, 2-(1-carboxyethoxy)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyl ester, calcium salt
OEUVSBXAMBLPES-UHFFFAOYSA-L
Stearic acid, ester with lactate of lactic acid, ca salt
Stearic acid, ester with lactic acid bimol. ester calcium salt

Systematic names

Calcium;2-(2-octadecanoyloxypropanoyloxy)propanoate
Octadecanoic acid, 2-(1-carboxyethoxy)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyl ester, calcium salt (2:1)

Hazard reference values

Values set by assessing bodies. A body that has not set a value is not listed here.
Type	Value	Population	Assessed by	Opinion
ADI	20 mg/kg bw/day	consumers	EFSA	not identified in the dataset

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

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