{"id":24825,"date":"2025-05-21T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24825"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:40:22","slug":"what-is-magnesium-chloride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/what-is-magnesium-chloride\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Magnesium Chloride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24826\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Magnesium-Chloride-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Magnesium-Chloride-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnesium Chloride photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Magnesium Chloride has been added to The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Food Ingredient Guide. Here\u2019s this new entry:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magnesium Chloride<\/strong><br \/>\nAlternate Names: nigari, bittern, MgCl2, E511, bischofite<br \/>\nCommercial Source: Mineral<br \/>\nUsed in: tofu, infant formula, sports drinks, beer, dietary supplements, winter road deicing, animal feed, fertilizer<br \/>\nUsed as: coagulant, flavoring agent, electrolyte, deicing agent<br \/>\nDefinition: Typically evaporated from seawater, magnesium chloride is a common coagulant in tofu production. Magnesium chloride possesses GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status by the US Food and Drug Administration.<br \/>\nManufacturers:<br \/>\nAdnan Heikal of Alliance Chemical: \u201cThis product does not contain any declared animal-origin materials [or processing aids] in its composition.\u201d<br \/>\nOwen Donald of Celtic Chemicals: \u201cNone of our products are derived from animal ingredients [or have] animal-derived processing aids involved in their manufacture.\u201d<br \/>\nAdditional Information:<br \/>\nCode of Federal Regulations<br \/>\nClassification: Vegan<br \/>\nEntry Added: May 2025<\/p>\n<p>For more ingredient entries, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support The Vegetarian Resource Group Research, donate at <a href=\"http:\/\/vrg.org\/donate\">vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contents of this posting, our website and our other publications, including Vegan Journal, are not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgment about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnesium Chloride has been added to The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Food Ingredient Guide. Here\u2019s this new entry: Magnesium Chloride Alternate Names: nigari, bittern, MgCl2, E511, bischofite Commercial Source: Mineral Used in: tofu, infant formula, sports drinks, beer, dietary supplements, winter road deicing, animal feed, fertilizer Used as: coagulant, flavoring agent, electrolyte, deicing agent Definition: Typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24828,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}