Food additive main effects

Food additives contributed greatly to the development of food industry, and known as the soul of the
modern food industry, primarily its many benefits to the food industry, its main role is as follows:
Prevent deterioration:
For example: preservatives can prevent from microorganisms in food spoilage and prolong shelf life of

food, but also can prevent food poisoning caused by the role of microbial contamination. Another

example: antioxidants can prevent or delay the oxidative deterioration of food to provide food,

stability and storability, but also prevents potentially harmful substances in the formation of fat

auto-oxidation. In addition, can also be used to prevent food, especially fruits, vegetables and non-

enzymatic browning enzymatic browning. These are the preservation of food has a certain significance.
Improve the sensory properties of food:
Food color, smell, taste, shape and texture is a measure of food quality and other important indicators.

Appropriate use of coloring agent, color, bleach, food spices and emulsifiers, thickeners and other food

additives, can significantly improve the sensory quality of food, to meet people’s different needs.
Maintain or improve the nutritional value of food:
In the food processing appropriate to add some part of the scope of natural nutrition food nutrition

fortifier, can greatly improve the nutritional value of food, which is to prevent malnutrition and

nutritional deficiencies, promote nutritional balance, improve people’s health is important.
Increase the variety and convenience foods:
Now the market has many as 20,000 more than the food available to consumers, even though most of these

food production through packaging and different processing methods must deal with, but in production

engineering, some color, smell and taste with all the products, add to varying degrees, mostly coloring,

flavoring, seasoning as well as other food additives. It is these many foods, especially convenience

food supply to people’s lives and work to bring great convenience.
Beneficial to food processing:
Defoamer used in food processing, filter aid, stability and coagulants, etc., can be beneficial to food

processing operations. For example, when using gluconic acid δ lactone as tofu coagulant, the tofu can

be beneficial to the production of mechanization and automation.
Meet other special needs:
Food should be possible to meet people’s needs. For example, diabetes can not eat candy, you can use

non-nutritive sweeteners or low calorie sweeteners such as sucralose or aspartic acid phenylalanine

methyl ester made from sugar-free food supply.