Hydrochloric Acid

What is HVP?

By Orlando Personal Injury Attorney on April 7, 2010

We are so inured to unknown and unpronounceable preservatives, emulsifiers, flavor enhancers, coloring agents and other chemicals in our food that another additive found in the list of ingredients is an afterthought. Until recently, hydrolyzed vegetable protein or HVP was just another acronym for some synthesized food additive. The official name of this product is acid-hydrolyzed vegetable protein as the manufacturing process in making HVP involves sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid.

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