Food additives

Food Additives
Related Category: Food and Cooking
substances added to foods by manufacturers to prevent spoilage or to enhance appearance, taste, texture, or nutritive value.

Food additives are ingredients added to foods that may help improve their texture, taste, appearance or shelf life.

Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or improve its taste and appearance.

Food additives: substances added intentionally to foodstuffs to perform certain technological functions, for example to color, to sweeten or to preserve.

Additives (food additives) - Any natural or synthetic material, other than the basic raw ingredients, used in the production of a food item to enhance the final product.

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Understanding the USDA Food Pyramid ...

No Veterinary Chemicals and Food Additives - Many people seem unaware that when eating industrially produced meat and/or dairy products, they are also ingesting unwanted antibiotics, hormones, and other food additives. Why should you care?

When speaking about sour food additives, vinegar (though not a spice) should not be forgotten; made from various alcoholic sources (palm wine, rice wine, brandy, fruit wines, mostly from grapes or apples; industrially the most common source is wood), ...

An acidic substance used as food additives that act as control agents to alter food ph levels in beverages and sweets or to serve as levening agents for breads.

We also found tidbits at the eGullet forums, and Ruth Winter's book on food additives. The Modernist Cuisine cookbook and Modern Gastronomy: A to Z cover much of the same material as below and they look nicer, but they cost a whole lot more! ...

mono- & di-glycerides - Emulsifying agents found in shortening, margarine, cacao products and bakery products. Usually derived from soybean fat, these food additives keep food products from separating.

A study done at Rutgers State University found that Rosemary had preservative qualities more powerful and safer than the common food additives BHA and BHT - it helps prevent food poisoning. Topical applications of this herbs oil are many.

Flavoring or seasoning, anything added to food for the flavor it imparts or the act of adding flavor to food. Think of herbs, spices, condiments, seasonings, or some food additives as different flavorings.

See also: Food additive, Cooking, Sugar, Flavor, Water