Food Grade Calcium Carbonate Powder is an extremely healthy, nutritious and safe all natural ingredient. This white crystalline compound is very popular with gardeners, culinarians and painters.

It increases the pH of acidic soils. It is needed by the body for healthy bones, muscles, nervous system, and heart. It makes paint more dense and extends pigments. It is commonly used to improve plant health, as a dietary supplement, in chalk paint recipes and as a food additive.

Food grade calcium carbonate powder is safe for plants, fruit, cooking, gardens, bread dough and eating in small doses. This high quality white powder is made from limestone. It has the highest concentration (40%) of elemental calcium.

High purity Lab Alley brand food grade calcium carbonate powder is commonly used to neutralize soil acidity. Calcium carbonate is an inorganic salt commonly used as a nutrient for yeast and an anti-caking agent.

It is used in homemade chalk paint recipes and for paint and coating applications to extend the resins and polymers. It is an oral source of calcium for pets and a white food color.

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO₃. It is used as a calcium supplement, antacid,  phosphate binder or base material for medicinal tablets.

What Is Food Grade Calcium Carbonate Powder?

The Lab Alley brand of high purity Calcium Carbonate Food Grade Powder is safe for human consumption. It is safe for use with foods and can come into direct contact with food products. Calcium from food grade calcium carbonate powder used in calcium-fortified foods is readily absorbed by the body.

Calcium carbonate appears as a white, odorless powder or colorless crystals. Calcium Carbonate is a naturally occurring compound in chalk, limestone, and marble and in the minerals calcite and aragonite. It is used to make toothpaste, white paint, and cleaning powder. 

Calcium Carbonate is the active ingredient in agricultural lime. It’s a component of eggshells and seashells, but commercial forms of calcium carbonate are mostly obtained via mining. It can purchased online from specialty chemical suppliers such as Lab Alley. You can buy this white powder online, here.

How Calcium Carbonate Is Used In Personal Care Products

Calcium carbonate has many uses in personal care products. It is used as an oil control ingredient in many facial powders, foundations, and other cosmetics due to its excellent capacity to absorb oil.

It can also be used in homemade dry shampoo for the same reason. It has anti-bacterial and deodorizing properties, which makes it a useful additive for toothpaste and deodorant.

How Calcium Carbonate Powder Is Used In Food And Dietary Supplements

Food grade calcium carbonate powder is commonly used as a food additive to increase the calcium content of foods. It’s also popular for use in calcium supplements, as it provides a high amount of elemental calcium for a low price.

It has many applications in the baking industry. It is commonly added to bread, where it functions as a ‘dough conditioner’- it improves the texture of dough and the volume of the baked bread, as well as several other functions relating to the chemistry of bread baking (like pH, gas retention, enzymatic activity, etc.).

It also serves as a whitening agent, and can be used for food coloring. It can provide a nutritional source for yeast, but could inactivate it at high concentrations. It also works as an effective bulking agent or thickener.

In general, it is used in many shelf-stable products, like canned fruits, as a preservative and in dairy products as a stabilizer. It can also be used to regulate acidity or alkalinity of certain foods, like fruit juices or preserves. Its water absorbent properties make it a good anti-caking agent to prevent formation of lumps.

Calcium carbonate chewable tablets are used as a calcium supplement. Calcium carbonate is also used as an antacid to relieve the symptoms of heartburn and indigestion. It can treat high phosphate levels in patients that have kidney disease.

Food grade calcium carbonate powder is frequently used in dietary supplements, milk powder, chalk, breakfast cereal, milk tablets and nutritional bars. This food safe product is also used in fortified beverages, dough regulators, cookies, crackers, soups, yeast nutrients, sauces and in food processing.

Recipes Using Food Grade Calcium Carbonate Powder

You can use calcium carbonate in many fun DIY projects! For example, here is a recipe to make your own toothpaste and dry shampoo at home using calcium carbonate.

It can also be used to make a refreshing, exfoliating clay face mask.

How To Buy Food Grade Calcium Carbonate Powder

You can buy food grade calcium carbonate powder online at LabAlley.com in many different sizes: 100g, 125g, 500g, 1 kg, 2.5 kg, 12.5 kg, 25 kg, and 50 lb.

Lab Alley stocks lab grade, ACS/USP grade, and food grade (FCC) calcium carbonate. It is available both as a powder and as marble chips. Lab Alley, based in Austin, Texas, is a national calcium carbonate supplier.

Lab Alley brand Food Grade Calcium Carbonate Powder is used for plants, eating, tomatoes, gardens, lawns, pools, fruit and chalk paint. Calcium carbonate is a good oral source of calcium for pets, dogs, birds and chickens.

If you’re wondering how to choose the right grade, check out this article for an overview on all the common chemical grades, or this one for a guide on how to choose safe chemicals.