Used in the food and beverage industry as an acidulant to provide tartness in soft drinks, candies, baking powders, and fruit juices. Enhances flavor and acts as a chelating agent to stabilize and preserve products.

Employed in pharmaceuticals to form tartrate salts of drugs, improving solubility and bioavailability, and as a solubilizing agent.

Serves as a chiral resolving agent in organic synthesis due to its optical activity and asymmetric center in the structure.

Utilized in metal cleaning, removing oxidation from surfaces like copper and iron, and in electroplating processes for its ability to complex with metal ions.

Found in certain photographic developers and as an additive in cement and concrete to control setting time.

Also used in the cosmetics industry to control pH of products and provide gentle exfoliation, resulting in smoother skin.