Wax ester

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As wax Sesterheim are ester (specifically Carbonsäureester ) of fatty acids with unbranched fatty alcohols of even carbon numbers from 10 to 22 ( waxes hereinafter). They serve as chewing masses and have been used as a substitute for sperm oil (" whale advice ") since the whaling ban . So-called butter mackerel (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum and Ruvettus preciosus, also declared as “smoked butterfish”) cause digestive problems due to their natural wax ester content. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment regards this as an avoidable risk. In this case, the wax esters are no longer called E 910, but gempylotoxins . Often behenic acid is one of the main ingredients.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Nutrition: Wachsester - Lexicon of Nutrition , accessed on June 29, 2020
  2. ↑ Antiphon Verlag: Ordinance on requirements for additives and the placing on the market of additives for technological purposes ZVerkV . BoD - Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7314-0108-7 , pp. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Lexicon of additives: 910 wax esters - Lexicon of additives , accessed on June 29, 2020
  4. ↑ E. Schwarz, HW Spier, G. Stüttgen: Normal and Pathological Physiology of the Skin II . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-46393-8 , pp. 279 ( limited preview in Google Book search).