Chemicals in Food

• Chemicals are added to food as −

• Food colours

• Flavours and sweeteners

• Fat emulsifiers and stabilising agents

• Flour improvers: anti-staling agents and bleaches

• Anti-oxidants

• Preservatives

• Nutritional supplements (like minerals, vitamins, amino acids)

• Artificial sweetening agents

• Chemicals that sweeten food

• Do not add calories to our body

• Saccharin (ortho-sulphobenzimide) is the first popular artificial sweetening ...