Sodium gluconate

INS 576

Used as a thickener — Codex also lists it as sequestrant, stabilizer.

Sodium gluconate is a sequestrant that binds metal ions, used to stop discolouration and off-flavours caused by trace metals in processed foods.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Sodium gluconate by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
JurisdictionStatusScope and limitsCitation
United StatesFood and Drug AdministrationPermitted21 CFR 182.6757retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFAPermitted, with conditions

5 food categories

no numerical limit (good manufacturing practice)

Show every food category
  • 04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, — GMP
  • 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products — GMP
  • 09.2 Processed fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP
  • 12.1.2 Salt substitutes — GMP
  • 14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa — GMP
CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 576and 5 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Made by fermenting glucose to gluconic acid and neutralising it with sodium.

  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian
InChIKey
UPMFZISCCZSDND-JJKGCWMISA-M
PubChem
CID 23672301

Every name it appears under

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

E number

  • E576

INS number

  • 576

CAS registry number

  • 14906-97-9
  • 527-07-1

As it appears in regulation

  • Sodium gluconate

Other names

  • 2,3,4,5,6-Pentahydroxycaproic acid sodium salt
  • Bvd addicrete
  • C6H11NaO7
  • CAS-527-07-1
  • Clewat gl
  • D-Gluconate sodium
  • D-Gluconate sodium salt
  • D-Gluconic acid sodium salt
  • D-Gluconic acid sodium salt;Sodium D-gluconate;D-Gluconate sodium salt
  • D-Gluconic acid, monosodium salt
  • D-Gluconic acid, sodium salt (1:1)
  • D-Gluconic acid, sodium salt (1:?)
  • FEMA NO. 4934
  • Glonsen
  • gluconate sodium
  • Gluconato di sodio
  • Gluconic acid sodium salt
  • Gluconic acid, monosodium salt, D-
  • Helshas a
  • INS NO.576
  • INS-576
  • Monosodium D-gluconate
  • Monosodium gluconate
  • Natrum gluconicum
  • Pasexon 100T
  • sodium (2R,3S,4R,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexanoate
  • Sodium D-gluconate
  • SODIUM GLUCONATE
  • Sodium gluconate (USP)
  • SODIUM GLUCONATE pure

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

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

  • ecfr retrieved 2026-09-07
  • gsfa retrieved 2026-09-07

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