Food additive with multiple functions. It is an acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, emulsifier, stabilizer and colorant. It is part of the natural additives of mineral origin (chalk) category, and it can be found as E170(i)-Calcium carbonate or E170(ii)-Calcium hydrogen carbonate. For the food and pharmaceutical industry, it is usually obtained from marble.
It is widely used as a surface colorant, anti-drying agent, canned fruit stabilizer and in pharmacy as a filling agent.
It is a source of calcium, being incorporated in some dietary supplements.
It also has the role of neutralizing gastric hyperacidity.
Food additive with multiple functions. It is a natural product with anti-caking, thickening, emulsifying, glazing role and is a substance-support for other additives and sweeteners. Due to its high temperature stability, this sweetener is successfully used in heat-treated…
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Food additive with artificial sweetener role. Although it has an unpleasant metallic bitter aftertaste, saccharin has been used on a large scale, by both diabetics and the food industry, being 300-500 times sweeter than sugar. Being an intense,…
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Food additive with sweetening role, obtained by chemical processes from regular sugar, being 600 times sweeter than sugar, very stable at any pH and at high temperatures, as well as over time, thus allowing its use in a…
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Food additive with flavor enhancing and sweetening role. It is a natural product, obtained from the katemfe’s fruit seed husks of the Thaumatococcus daniellii shrub that grows in West Africa. As a sweetener, thaumatin is 2000 times sweeter…
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