(a) For Food: Ethyl lactate has a unique rum, fruit, and cream flavour and has been widely used as a transfer agent in imitation cream, cheese, milk, fruit juice, wine, and other foods.
(b) For Industrial: Ethyl lactate is non-toxic, has good solubility with fruity odour characteristics, and can be used as the "Green solvents "to replace the current toxic solvents used widely in industry areas, such as halogenated, ethers, fluorocarbon and other solvents, to be used in precision instruments and oilfield pipe cleaning and the dissolution of cellulose polymers.
(c) Others: Ethyl lactate can be used as a pharmaceutical intermediate synthetic material in the chemical industry, medicine, and pesticide areas.