Is citric acid safe to use as a pipe cleaner?

I believe that everyone has more or less heard of citric acid, but not much is known. In fact, citric acid as an important organic acid is still widely used, of which we are most familiar with it as a natural preservative and food additives. Citric acid is a colorless crystal, has no odor, has a strong sour taste, and is easily soluble in water.

The fruits we eat in our daily lives, such as lemons, citrus, pineapples and other fruits, will have the presence of natural citric acid, and even in the bones, muscles, and blood of animals. Therefore, natural citric acid is widely distributed in nature. So how is the citric acid we usually see made? It is usually fermented with sugary substances such as sugar, molasses, starch, grapes, etc., and is a synthetic citric acid.

As an edible acid, citric acid can be added to foods to make food taste better and enhance appetite, than if sauces, drinks, cans and candies will add citric acid. Therefore, citric acid is harmless to the human body, but long-term eating of something with citric acid can easily lead to hypocalcemia and duodenal cancer, because citric acid will promote the excretion and deposition of calcium in the body. Therefore, if the children in the family like and often eat some sour candy, jam and other foods, they should drink more milk, fish soup and other foods to supplement calcium.

Therefore, from the above knowledge about citric acid, using citric acid as a cleaning agent is harmless to the human body. So what role does citric acid play in pipe cleaning? First of all, the corrosion of citric acid to the metal is very small, can dissolve iron oxide and copper oxide, and the cleaning effect on rust is very obvious. At present, most of the water pipes used in Chinese households are plastic pipes, and a small number of old residential areas use iron pipes or galvanized pipes, which will produce a lot of rust after the accumulation of use, which is very good to clean with citric acid.

For water pipes in the home, citric acid is pre-diluted during cleaning, and the citric acid solution is used to clean the inner wall of the pipe. Through citric acid to soften the scale, combined with the CACS spiral pulse cleaning technology, the pulse of the water vapor mixing spiral is generated to wash the pipe in all directions, so that the old scale in the water pipe is peeled off, safe and efficient, so that the pipeline is smooth and clean.

In short, the citric acid used in cleaning the water pipe is edible grade citric acid, and in the actual cleaning process, it will be diluted with water, which will not adversely affect the water pipe and human health.