White crystal powder, idolesss and peculiar sweet. It dissolves readily in water and slightly in ethanol.

DL-Alanine is mainly used as nutritional supplement and flavoring in food processing industry. It has a good freshness and can promote the effects of chemical flavorings. It has a peculiar sweetness and can improve the taste of the artificial sweeteners, improve the sourness may help salt enter vegetables, improve the quality of salted or sauce-pickled vegetables, cut short the pickling duration, and improve the flavor; It can be used as a corrector or buffer in the composition of wine or soft beverage, can be prevent bubble wine from ageing and can deter the odor of yeast.

Its function of ant oxidation can be used in food processing. For instance, it can be used in oils, yolk jam, purified foods, sauce-picked foods, and bran-pickled foods, and bran-pickled foods. It can both protect them from oxidation and improve their flavor.

It can be used as a raw material for Vitamin B 6and a material for the research on metabolism of amino acids by medical organisms or on a biochemical basis