Azodicarbonamide is a synthetic chemical that is present as a yellow-orange crystald at ambient temperature. Azodicarbonamide is mainly used industrially as a blowing agent in the rubber and plastics industries, olefins and natural/synthetic rubbers. It is also used as a food additive in life, such as aging and bleaching ingredients in flour and dough conditioner in bread baking, which plays a big role in both life and industry.
Azodicarbonamide is used as a flour bleachonditioner. It reacts with moist flour as an oxidant. The main reaction product described above is biuret, a derivative of urea which is stable during the baking process. The secondary reaction products include semicarbazide and urethane.