blanching agent

Questions about blanching agent

What does blanching agent mean?

blanching agent means "an agent that makes things white or colorless".

What is another word for blanching agent?

Close synonyms include bleaching agent, bleach, whitener. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blanching agent a common word?

blanching agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.