Disclose food additives

Food additives have been around for many, many years, dating back more than 2,000 years.As early as the han dynasty, people began to use brine to make tofu.The brine here is a food additive!

In the song dynasty, people found that nitrite can be used for anti-corrosion and keep the bacon color bright, the technique was introduced into Europe in the 13th century, the love of the local people and widely used.In other words, the beloved German sausage of today is also related to our ancestors.

The modern definition of food additives is: in order to improve food quality and color, aroma, taste, and for the sake of corrosion protection, preservation and processing technology to join the artificial synthetic or natural substances in food.

Commonly used food additives are preservatives, antioxidants, thickeners, emulsifiers, acidity regulators, and more than 20 types of it!

The most common functions of food additives are:

Anticorrosion: to facilitate the production, processing, packaging, transportation or storage of food.

Maintain or enhance the nutritional value of the food itself: such as high calcium biscuits, high iron rice flour nutritional fortifier.

Improve the quality and stability of foods: such as antioxidants in cooking oil.Food products like cooking oil, hemp flowers and nuts used to have a regular taste of rancid, but now they're much less so because we have antioxidants.

Improve food taste: emulsifiers and thickeners in ice cream bars, for example.