Food Additives

What are food additives?Food sides with neither with the poisons-in-your-pantry doomsayers nor those who proclaim the wonders ofmodern food technology. Instead, it presents an undistorted picture of our current food supply.

What are the most common food additives?

• Food colouring• Aspartame• Monosodium glutamate (MSG)• Sodium benzoate• Sodium nitrite

Why are food additives used?Food in supermarkets are produced at a large scale, and needs to maintain high quality for long periods of time. Therefore, additives are added to help foods maintain high quality by slowing down the growth of fungi, yeast or mould.

Why are food additives used?Additives are also added to make food look more appealing and taste better, such as with food coloring or sweenteners. They are also used to maintain or improve nutritional value of foods, since processing foods takes away nutrition in natural foods, hence additives are used to replace the nutrition or add additional nutrients such as iron.

Why are food additives used?Additives also help in manufacturing food. For example, emulsifiers keep oil and water mixed together. Without it the oil and water would be separated, hence many products like ice cream, mayonnaise, and margarine will not be able to be made.

Why are food additives used?To put it simply, it is convenient.

Let’s compare...

In Cold Storage,A Magnolia vanilla 1.5litre ice cream costs $5.20.A Wall’s vanilla 1.5litre ice cream costs $5.15.

Let’s compare...But,In Magnolia, natural food additives are used.In Wall’s, halal food additives are used.So,If you are Malay, buy Wall’s.If you are not, buy Magnolia as the additives used in Wall’s are unknown.

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