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It's in
huckleberries. In cinnamon
sticks too!
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Benzoic acid is an
organic acid that
occurs in cranberries, huckleberries, plums, cinnamon and cloves, for
example. It is occasionally still used in disinfectant solutions, but
it is mainly used for the production of dyes and as a preservative in
foods. Although H. Fleck describes the preservative effect of benzoic
acid as early as 1875, it is only introduced into food preservation
around the turn of the century - until this time there is not the
technical know-how for producing benzoic acid synthetically in large
amounts. Since then it has been one of the most widely used
preservatives in all countries of the world.
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