Pollutants in the internal environment
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Food additives are substances added to food to preserve and enhance taste and appearance. They maintain nutritive quality, enhance storage stability, and make food more attractive and palatable. However, some additives can cause allergies in sensitive individuals. They can also replace real ingredients and trick consumers. Food additives are classified as either intentional or incidental, with intentional additives purposefully added to impart desirable qualities like preventing caking, bleaching fats and oils, or giving food a shiny coating.
Pollutants in the internal environment
- 1. Pollutants In the Internal Environment
- 2. Food Additives substance added to food to preserve and enhance its taste and appearance.
- 3. Advantages of food Additives ψ they maintain the nutritive quality of food. ψ they enhance the storage quality or stability of the food with the reduction of food.
- 4. ψ They make food attractive in a manner w/c does not lead to deception ψ They provide aids in food processing. ψThey make food more palatable.
- 5. Dis Advantages of Food Additives ψ Can cause allergies A number of additives can cause allergic reactions. The two most widely artificial colorings Red 40 and Yellow 5. ψ They Trick the Eye ψ They replace the real ingredients
- 6. Classification of food additives Intensional food additives ~ Chemicals added intensionally to the food in order to impart a desirable quality
- 7. Incidental Food additives ~ chemicals w/c finds their way to the food during the growing, cleaning, processing, packaging and storage of food and are generally used to serve useful purposes in the final products.
- 8. Intension food additives and their uses Anti-caking agents They prevent the caking of the food products. They maintain the free flowing characteristics of the of the food.
- 9. Bleaching and maturing agent Use to neutralize color present naturally in fats and oil
- 10. Glazing and polishing agent Give luster to the dull coating and make it look