What is Food Additives(Types of food additives & Importance of food additives )2020.

What is Food Additives(Type of Food Additives & Importance of Food Additives)2020.

Food Additives:-

Food additives is a consumable substance that it added to any food to enhance its taste, appearance, texture and prevent it from becoming repugnant or in most cases rotten.
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Food additives are substances added to product to perform specific technological function. These functions include prese to food for interest and variety .

Increasing shelf life of or inhibiting the growth of pathogens, or adding coloring and flavoring

• During processing ,small amounts of certain chemicals are often added.
• Basically, a food additive is something that doesn't normally occur in the food we eat, it has to be added.
• Food additives may be natural or artificial.
• Any substance that become part of food product either directly or indirectly during some phases of processing.

Any substance that becomes a part of a food product either directly or indirectly during some phase of processing, storage or packaging.

1. Direct Additives
2. Indirect Additives

      1.Direct Additives

List of Additives:

"Direct additives are those that are intentionally added to foods for a specific purpose".

• Anti-caking agent

• Non-nutritive sweeteners & Nutritive sweeteners

• Leavening agent

• Humectants

• Flavor enhancers

• Flavoring agent

• Emulsifiers

• Colors

• Antioxidants

• Antimicrobial agent

• Enzymes etc.

      2.Indirect Additives

"Indirect additives are those which get included into foods accidentally during handling,processing and packaging".

List of Additives

• Sanitizers

• Detergents

• Metal, plastic, wood, paper etc.

• Packaging material

• Cleaning agents

• Solvent, lubricants

• Food contact material etc.

Types of food additives

    1.Natural Food Additives

    2.Manmade versions

    3.Artificial 

     1.Natural

"The additives found naturally, such as extracted from beetroot juice (E162)used as a coloring agent".

     2.Manmade version

"Those additive are Synthetic identical copies of substance found naturally, such as benzoic acid (E210) use as a preservative".

     3.Artificial

"The additives produced synthetically and not found naturally, such as nisin (E234) used as a preservative in some dairy products and in semolina and tapioca puddings".

Importance of food additives

• To maintain product consistency.

• To improve or maintain nutritional value.

• To provide leavening or control acidity or alkalinity.

• To enhance flavor or impart desired color.

• To maintain palatability and wholesomeness.

•  Coloring add or restore color to foods.