Sodium gluconate is a compound with formula NaC₆H₁₁O₇. It is the sodium salt of gluconic acid. Its E number is E576. Sodium gluconate is widely used in textile dyeing, printing and metal surface water treatment. It is also used as achelating agent, a steel surface cleaning agent, a cleaning agent for glass bottles, and as a chelating agent for cement, plating and alumina dyeing industries. It is a white powder that is very soluble in water.

This product has excellent corrosion and scale inhibition, is widely used in water quality stabilizer, with the use of steel surface cleaning agent, as a special cleaning agent for glass bottle, in the construction industry as a water reducer, 

Food additives sodium gluconate can cover the smelly soy protein, smelly fish, and the trace metal elements, such as magnesium, iron, zinc, especially the magnesium. It is suitable for being added to drinks, Hamburg and healthy food,