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If eaten, the tartaric acid in grapes or raisins may cause acute kidney disease.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022
A transparency tab lists ingredients — organic grapes, sulfites, cream of tartar, tartaric acid, yeast, yeast nutrients and organic cane sugar for sparkling wine.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2022
These techniques include adding tartaric acid, not to make up for a deficiency but because the founders of Heitz believed that acidity rather than tannins was the key to long aging.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
William Astbury, J. D. Bernal and Kathleen Lonsdale worked at the Royal Institution in London under physicist and Nobel laureate William Henry Bragg, studying small molecules such as tartaric acid.
From Nature • Apr. 15, 2019
By adding tartaric acid or citric acid the effective concentration could be reduced to 4 p.p.m. but the mixture could not be made into a tablet without decomposition and a two-tablet system was deemed undesirable.
From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph
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