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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
Term:sequestrant
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Definition:A food preservative that acts by chelating with metal cations (particularly those of copper, iron and nickel) that catalyse the oxidation of fats in food.
Synonyms:related_synonym: sequestrants
 xref: Wikipedia:Sequestrant


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  CHEBI ontology 494
    role 501
      chemical role 420
        ligand 9
          chelator 9
            sequestrant 0
              potassium metaphosphate 0
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  CHEBI ontology 494
    role 501
      biological role 494
        physiological role 492
          food component 492
            food additive 33
              food preservative 23
                sequestrant 0
                  potassium metaphosphate 0
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