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(improving agent, bleach) used as an oxidant to enhance the extraction of precious metals from their ores. As food additive used as flour bleaching agent and improving agent. Flour bleaching agent is the agent added to fresh milled grains to whiten the flour by removing the yellow colour pigment called xanthophyll. It whitens the flour, which is used in the baking industry. Bleached flour improves the structure-forming capacity, allowing the use of dough formulas with lower proportions of flour and higher proportions of sugar. Improving agent, or bread improver, is any ingredient or chemical added to bread dough to strengthen its texture or otherwise improve it in some way.