Reserarch Progress on the Application and Detection of β-Hydroxy-β-Methylbutyric Acid and Its Calcium Salt in Food
It has been more than ten years since calcium β-hydroxy-β-methyl butyrate is officially approved as a new resource food in China in 2011,but the related application of food is rare in the consumer market.And China has not yet issued national testing standards,resulting calcium β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate in market supervision and product development is limited to a certain extent.Therefore,the research progress of β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyric acid and its calcium salts are reviewed in this paper.First of all,the production process and efficacy are introduced.Then,the application status and prospect of β-hydroxy-β-methyl butyric acid and its calcium salt are discussed.Then,the existing detection techniques ofβ-hydroxy-β-methyl butyric acid and its calcium salt at home and abroad are summarized.Finally,the future research direction of β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyric acid and its calcium salt is prospected,for example,animal experiments or toxicological tests are carried out for infants,children,pregnant women and lactating women to supplement safety data.The study of a wider range of detection methods ofβ-hydroxy-β-methylbutyric acid and its calcium salt is beneficial to market supervision,enterprise quality control and product development.