Ingredient Information

Function

It is used as a nutritional supplement. It is the source of manganese in food when added. The supplement can be taken in the form of injection too. Manganese sulfate is a chemical compound that is used as manganese supplement. Its chemical formula is MnSO4 (H2O). It is pale pink in appearance. It is also called manganese sulfate monohydrate.

Manganese is a mineral that is found in several foods including nuts, legumes, seeds, tea, whole grains, and leafy green vegetables. It is considered an essential nutrient, because the body requires it to function properly. People use manganese as medicine. Manganese is used for prevention and treatment of manganese deficiency, a condition in which the body doesn’t have enough manganese. It is also used for weak bones (osteoporosis), a type of “tired blood” (anemia), and symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Manganese is sometimes included with chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride in multi-ingredient products promoted for osteoarthritis. Manganese is an essential nutrient involved in many chemical processes in the body, including processing of cholesterol, carbohydrates, and protein. It might also be involved in bone formation.

Other Use and Industries

It can also be used in animal food supplements for cattle, poultry, dogs, cats and other animals. It also has medicinal and agricultural uses. Manganese sulfate is one of the important trace element fertilizers can be used as base fertilizer, seed soaking, seed dressing, top dressing and foliar spray, can promote the growth of crops to increase production. In animal husbandry and feed industry, Manganese sulfate used as feed additives, livestock development can make good, and fattening effect. Is processing paint, printing ink driers; Tea Manganese solution of raw materials; synthesis of fatty acids as a catalyst; In addition, manganese sulfate can be used for paper, ceramics, printing and dyeing, ore flotation; manganese in the production of raw materials and the manufacture of other Mn Salt materials; also used for battery, smelting catalysts, reagents, mordant, additives, pharmaceutical excipients.

Health Effects

Consuming of nutritional supplements with this compound can help fulfill the deficiency of manganese. It can help in maintaining healthy bones as it a cofactor in several enzyme systems that promote bone formation. It can help in absorption of calcium. The functioning of thyroid is dependant on manganese along with iodine, and lack of this mineral can cause hypothyroidism. It can help regulate blood- sugar levels as it helps in the conversion of fat and protein into energy.

It may cause irritation to skin and eyes in some people. It might cause flu- like illness for 1 or 2 days. Exposure to it for a long time in high doses can lead to damage to liver and nervous system.

People with chronic liver disease have trouble getting rid of manganese. Manganese can build up in these people and cause shaking, mental problems such as psychosis, and other side effects. If you have liver disease, be careful not to get too much manganese.

People with iron-deficiency anemia seem to absorb more manganese than other people. If you have this condition, be careful not to get too much manganese.

Excess manganese can cause serious side effects, including symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease, such as shaking (tremors). People who have trouble getting rid of manganese from the body, such as people with liver disease, may experience side effects when taking less than 11 mg per day.

Origins

Manganese dioxide reacts with sulfur dioxide to give manganese sulfate. The ores of manganese are purified by this reaction. It dissolves in water and does not react with it. The powder has a pale pink appearance.

In ancient times, two black minerals from Magnesia in what is now modern Greece were both called magnes, but were thought to differ in gender. The male magnes attracted iron, and was the iron ore we now know as lodestone or magnetite, and which probably gave us the term magnet. The female magnes ore did not attract iron, but was used to decolorize glass. This feminine magnes was later called magnesia, known now in modern times as pyrolusite or manganese dioxide.