Food additives
Any substance added to food in order to change certain characteristics of the food.
Purpose
Food additives added to change or modify the following:
- maintain product consistency,
- improve or maintain nutritional value,
- maintain palatability or wholesomeness,
- provide leavening or control pH, or
- enhance flavor or impart desired color.
Lists of food additives
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