Ammonium ferric citrate

Ammonium ferric citrate, also known as ammonium ferric citrate, is available in brown and green. It is odorless, has a salty and irony smell, is very easy to absorb moisture, can be reduced to ferrous salts by light, is more unstable in solution, is easily soluble in water, insoluble in organic solvents such as ethanol and ether, and has a neutral aqueous solution. Green is more easily reduced by light than brown. The brown scaly ammonium ferric citrate has a higher iron content, while the green scaly ammonium ferric citrate has a lower iron content.

Ammonium ferric citrate is an excellent nutritional enhancer. It can be used as a blood tonic to treat iron deficiency anemia. It is widely used in many fields such as food additives and medicine. The brown flaky ammonium ferric citrate has a higher iron content, while the green flaky ammonium ferric citrate has a lower iron content.