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  2. Maltodextrin - Wikipedia

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    Maltodextrin is used to improve the texture and mouthfeel of food and beverage products, such as potato chips and "light" peanut butter to reduce the fat content. [6] It is an effective flavorant, bulking agent, and sugar substitute. [6] Maltodextrin is easily digestible and can provide a quick source of food energy. [6]

  3. List of food additives - Wikipedia

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    Additives are used for many purposes but the main uses are: Acids Food acids are added to make flavors "sharper", and also act as preservatives and antioxidants. Common food acids include vinegar, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, folic acid, fumaric acid, and lactic acid.

  4. Dextrin - Wikipedia

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    Maltodextrin is a short-chain starch sugar used as a food additive. It is also produced by enzymatic hydrolysis from gelled starch, and is usually found as a creamy-white hygroscopic spray-dried powder. Maltodextrin is easily digestible, being absorbed as rapidly as glucose, and might either be moderately sweet or have hardly any flavor at all.

  5. International Numbering System for Food Additives - Wikipedia

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    preservative 203 E U calcium sorbate: preservative 209 U heptyl p-hydroxybenzoate: preservative 210 E U benzoic acid: preservative 211 A E U sodium benzoate: preservative 212 A E U potassium benzoate: preservative 213 A E U calcium benzoate: preservative 214 E U ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate: preservative 215 E U sodium ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate ...

  6. Isomalt - Wikipedia

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    Isomalt is an equimolar mixture of two diastereomeric disaccharides: 1-O-α-D-glucopyranosido-D-mannitol (1,1-GPM) and 6-O-α-D-glucopyranosido-D-sorbitol (1,6-GPS).Each of these is composed of two sugars: glucose and mannitol in the case of 1,1-GPM and glucose and sorbitol (also known as glucitol) in the case of 1,6-GPS.

  7. Liquid smoke - Wikipedia

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    It is an intermediate-polarity mixture of phenolic polymers, secondary and tertiary reaction products, [12] some of the water-soluble polar compounds partitioned in the amount of which is governed by individual partition coefficients, water and the bulk of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Wood tar has been used as a preservative, water ...

  8. Wine preservatives - Wikipedia

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    Wine contains natural preservatives such as tannin, sugar and alcohol, [2] and can be preserved through physical preservation methods, such as storage at an appropriate temperature. [3] However, bacterial growth is still possible, so chemical preservatives are added to most wines.

  9. Preservative - Wikipedia

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    A preservative is a substance or a chemical that is added to products such as food products, beverages, pharmaceutical drugs, paints, biological samples, cosmetics, wood, and many other products to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes. In general, preservation is implemented in two modes, chemical and ...