What do you think of food additives?

Without food additives, there would be no modern food industry. We advocate the rational use of food additives and put an end to illegal addition.

1. According to China's Food Hygiene Law (1995), food additives refer to artificial or natural substances added to food to improve the quality of food such as color, fragrance and taste, and meet the needs of preservation and processing technology.

2. At present, there are more than 2,000 kinds of food additives in 23 categories in China, including acidity regulators, anti-caking agents, defoamers, antioxidants, bleaches, fillers, colorants, color protectors, enzyme preparations, flavor enhancers, nutritional fortifiers, preservatives, sweeteners, thickeners, spices and so on.

3. Different countries in the world have different definitions of food additives. The common definition of food additives by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is that food additives are non-nutritive substances that are consciously added to food in small amounts to improve the appearance, flavor, organizational structure or storage characteristics of food. According to this definition, food fortifiers aimed at enhancing food nutrients should not be included in the scope of food additives.

4. Food additives refer to any substances artificially added to food for technical purposes in the process of food production, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transportation or storage.

5. Food additives have the following three characteristics: first, substances added to food, so they are generally not eaten as food alone; Second, it includes both synthetic and natural substances; Third, the purpose of adding to food is to improve the quality, color, fragrance and taste of food and meet the needs of preservation, preservation and processing technology!