Preservatives slow or prevent changes in color, flavor or texture and delay rancidity (antioxidants); maintain freshness Add extra sweetness with or without the extra calories. Color Additives offset color loss due to exposure to light, air, temperature extremes, moisture and storage conditions.
Preservatives slow or prevent changes in color, flavor or texture and delay rancidity (antioxidants); maintain freshness Add extra sweetness with or without the extra calories. Color Additives offset color loss due to exposure to light, air, temperature extremes, moisture and storage conditions.
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Preservatives slow or prevent changes in color, flavor or texture and delay rancidity (antioxidants); maintain freshness Add extra sweetness with or without the extra calories. Color Additives offset color loss due to exposure to light, air, temperature extremes, moisture and storage conditions.
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INGREDIENT DO OF USERS PRODUCT LABELS S Preservatives Prevent food spoilage Fruit sauces and jellies, Ascorbic acid, citric acid, from bacteria, molds, beverages, baked sodium benzoate, calcium fungi or yeast goods, cured meats, oils propionate, sodium (antimicrobials); slow or and margarines, cereals, erythorbate, sodium nitrite, prevent changes in dressings, snack foods, calcium sorbate, potassium color, flavor or texture fruits and vegetables sorbate, BHA, BHT, EDTA, and delay rancidity tocopherols (Vitamin E) (antioxidants); maintain freshness Sweeteners Add extra sweetness Beverages, baked Sucrose (sugar), glucose, with or without the goods, confections, fructose, sorbitol, mannitol, extra calories table-top sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn substitutes, many syrup, saccharin, aspartame, processed foods sucralose, acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K), neotame Color Additives Offset color loss due to Many processed foods, FD&C Blue Nos. 1 and 2, exposure to light, air, (candies, snack foods FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red temperature extremes, margarine, cheese, soft Nos. 3 and 40, FD&C Yellow moisture and storage drinks, jams/jellies, Nos. 5 and 6, Orange B, conditions; correct gelatins, pudding and Citrus Red No. 2, annatto natural variations in pie fillings) extract, beta-carotene, grape color; enhance colors skin extract, cochineal extract that occur naturally; or carmine, paprika oleoresin, provide color to caramel color, fruit and colorless and “fun” vegetable juices, saffron foods (Note: Exempt color additives are not required to be declared by name on labels but may be declared simply as colorings or color added) Flavors and Add specific flavors Pudding and pie Natural flavoring, artificial Spices (natural and fillings, gelatin flavor and spices synthetic) dessert mixes, cake mixes, salad dressings, candies, soft drinks, ice cream, BBQ sauce Flavor Enhance flavors Many processed foods Monosodium glutamate Enhancers already present in (MSG), hydrolyzed soy foods (without protein, autolyzed yeast providing their own extract, disodium separate flavor) guanylate or inosinate Fat Replacers Provide expected Baked goods, Olestra, cellulose gel, (and texture and a creamy dressings, frozen carrageenan, polydextrose, components “mouth-feel” in desserts, confections, modified food starch, of reduced-fat foods cake and dessert microparticulated egg formulations mixes, dairy products white protein, guar gum, used to xanthan gum, whey replace fats) protein concentrate Nutrients Replace vitamins and Flour, breads, cereals, Thiamine hydrochloride, minerals lost in rice, macaroni, riboflavin (Vitamin B2), processing margarine, salt, milk, niacin, niacinamide, folate (enrichment), add fruit beverages, or folic acid, beta carotene, nutrients that may be energy bars, instant potassium iodide, iron or lacking in the diet breakfast drinks ferrous sulfate, alpha (fortification) tocopherols, ascorbic acid, Vitamin D, amino acids (L- tryptophan, L-lysine, L- leucine, L-methionine) Emulsifiers Allow smooth mixing Salad dressings, Soy lecithin, mono- and of ingredients, peanut butter, diglycerides, egg yolks, prevent separation chocolate, margarine, polysorbates, sorbitan Keep emulsified frozen desserts monostearate products stable, reduce stickiness, control crystallization, keep ingredients dispersed, and to help products dissolve more easily Stabilizers Produce uniform Frozen desserts, dairy Gelatin, pectin, guar gum, and texture, improve products, cakes, carrageenan, xanthan Thickeners, “mouth-feel” pudding and gelatin gum, whey Binders, mixes, dressings, Texturizers jams and jellies, sauces pH Control Control acidity and Beverages, frozen Lactic acid, citric acid, Agents and alkalinity, prevent desserts, chocolate, ammonium hydroxide, acidulants spoilage low acid canned sodium carbonate foods, baking powder Leavening Promote risking of Breads and other Baking soda, monocalcium Agents baked goods baked goods phosphate, calcium carbonate Anti-caking Keep powdered foods Salt, baking powder, Calcium silicate, iron agents free-flowing, prevent confectioner’s sugar ammonium citrate, silicon moisture absorption dioxide Humectants Retain moisture Shredded coconut, Glycerin, sorbitol marshmallows, soft candies, confections Yeast Promote growth of Breads and other Calcium sulfate, nutrients yeast baked goods ammonium phosphate Dough Produce more stable Breads and other Ammonium sulfate, Strengthener dough baked goods azodicarbonamide, L- s and cysteine Conditioners Firming Maintain crispiness Processed fruits and Calcium chloride, calcium agents and firmness vegetables lactate Enzyme Modify proteins, Cheese, dairy Enzymes, lactase, papain, Preparations polysaccharides and products, meat rennet, chymosin