Food Additive

When you buy canned food, processed or prepared food, you can notice that there are other ingredients besides the main stuff. The other ingredients are called food additives. Food additives are substances that they put into the food to preserve the food or to make the food to look more attractive, to smell better and to be more tasty.The things they put in are preservative, antioxidant, stabilizer, emulsifier, and coloring and flavoring agents. The vitamin and mineral that they put into the food to increase their nutritional value are also called food additive. You usually can find them in grain products like enriched flour, enriched rice and pasta. Most of the grain product you can buy in US are enriched. The vitamin and mineral they usually put in are niacin, iron, vitamin B1, B2 and folic acid. Some of the drink and other food are also enriched. Examples are fortified milk and vitamin-added and mineral-added fruit juice. They usually put in calcium, vitamin A, C and D. There are other nutritional food additives such as sesame and honey.