Sodium pyruvate

Sodium pyruvate (CAS 113-24-6) is the sodium salt form of pyruvic acid, offering greater stability and handling convenience than the free acid.

Where is Sodium pyruvate used?

• Food and nutraceutical: metabolic energy substrate in sports nutrition products targeting endurance and weight management
• Cosmetics: humectant and skin-conditioning agent in moisturizers, serums and anti-aging products
• Pharmaceuticals: cryoprotective additive in parenteral formulations and stabilizing excipient in freeze-dried biologics
• In cell culture and fermentation media it serves as a direct carbon source that supports cell viability and reduces oxidative stress in sensitive mammalian cell lines.

Commercial specifications

• Cell culture-grade, often as sterile-filtered solution at 100 mM
• Bulk quantities for industrial biotech and food manufacturing; smaller pack sizes for laboratory and pharmaceutical compounding