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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | Date: 2005

acetic acid One of the simplest organic acids, also known systematically as ethanoic acid, chemically it is CH₃COOH. It is the acid of vinegar, and is formed, together with lactic acid, in the fermentation (pickling) of foods.


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