Jan 20,2022

Correctly Viewing Food Additives

The rational use of food additives can prevent food spoilage, maintain or enhance the nutrition of food, improve or enrich the color, aroma, taste, etc. of food.

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Jan 20,2022

Misunderstandings of Food Additives

People often believe that food additives are better than artificially synthesized ones, but in reality, the toxicity of many products is limited by the testing methods and content, and accurate judgments cannot be made. Moreover, compared with the results already detected, food additives are not less toxic than synthesized ones.

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Jan 20,2022

The main classification of food additives

The main classification of food additives

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Jan 20,2022

The main functions of food additives

Food additives have greatly strengthened the development of the food industry and are hailed as the soul of modern food industry. This is mainly because they bring many benefits to the food industry, and their main functions are roughly as follows:

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Jan 20,2022

Standard definition of food additives

The definition of food additives varies among countries around the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly define food additives as non nutritional substances that are consciously and generally added in small amounts to improve the appearance, flavor, tissue structure, or storage properties of food.

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Jan 20,2022

What is food additive

According to the Food Hygiene Law of China (1995), food additives are artificially synthesized substances added to food to improve its color, aroma, taste, and other qualities, as well as to meet the needs of preservation and processing technology. At present, there are 23 categories and over 2000 varieties of food additives in China, including acidity regulators, anti caking agents, defoamers, antioxidants, bleaching agents, leavening agents, colorants, color protectants, enzyme preparations, flavor enhancers, nutritional enhancers, preservatives, sweeteners, thickeners, fragrances, etc.

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