Is a kind of organic acid, is a metabolic product of organisms, binary acid, widely distributed in plants, animals and fungi, and in different living organisms play different functions. It has been found that oxalic acid is rich in more than 100 kinds of plants, especially spinach, amaranth, beet, purslane, taro, sweet potato and rhubarb. Because oxalic acid can reduce the bioavailability of mineral elements, it is considered as an antagonist for the absorption and utilization of mineral elements. Its anhydride is carbon sesquioxide.