COMMONLY USED FOOD ADDITIVES

DIFFICULTY LEVEL FOOD ADDITIVE COMMON USE EXAMPLES OF WHERE TO FIND Advanced Butylated Freshness Cereals, boxed Hydroxytoluene (BHT) potatoes, chips Advanced Calcium (propionate or Preservative Bread, soft drinks, sorbate) Antimicrobial agent processed meats Advanced Calcium disodium EDTA Preservative, Mayo, salad Color preserving dressings, canned agent, beans, soft drinks Flavor agent Advanced D-Alpha-Tocopherol Vitamin E, nutrient Milk alternatives supplement Advanced Hydrolyzed soy, wheat Flavor enhancer, Instant ramen, or vegetable protein Emulsifier, thickeners processed meats, soups, chips, snack foods, dips Advanced Monosodium Flavor enhancer Instant ramen, Glutamate (MSG) chips, Advanced Natamycin Natural mold Shredded inhibitor cheese, Advanced Potassium bromate Dough strengthener, Bread and baked Leavening agent goods Advanced Silicon dioxide Anticaking agent Cajun , instant ramen Advanced Sodium Ascorbate Maintains freshness Milk alternatives (derivative of ascorbic acid) Advanced Sodium Benzoate Preservative Soy Sauce, lemon-lime soda Easy Cane Sugar Sweetener Popsicle, bread, soft drinks, , sauces Easy Chicken broth Ingredient for flavor Instant ramen, soup Easy Chocolate Ingredient for flavor Cookies, candy bar, ice cream Easy Dehydrated Ingredient for flavor Instant ramen, vegetables boxed pasta salad Easy Distilled Vinegar Flavor enhancer, Salsa, , preservative mayo, pickles Easy Egg Binder, thickener Mayo, Mustard, Easy High Fructose Corn Sweetener Soda, white Syrup derived as bread, cookies, byproduct of corn production Easy Soybean oil Reduce dusting or Mayo, boxed flavor enhancer pasta salad Easy to Sweetener Moderate Easy to powder or juice Natural preservative “uncured” meats Advanced (with nitrites) Easy to Extract Natural color Strawberry Advanced additive shredded wheat cereal Easy to Flavor enhancer, Soy Sauce, Salsa, Advanced Sodium chloride preservative pickles, canned vegetables, sauces Easy to Beet Juice Natural color, Popsicle, juices Moderate flavoring agent Easy to Brown Rice Syrup Sweetener Strawberry Moderate derived as byproduct shredded wheat of rice production cereal, Easy to Cherry Puree Ingredient for flavor Popsicle Moderate and color Easy to Lactose Flavor enhancer, Sour cream and Moderate nutritive sweetener, onion chips, stabilizer or thickener Easy to Pectin Emulsifier, firming Jelly, jam, yogurt moderate agent, thickener Moderate Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C and Popsicle, fruit freshness juices, cereals, fruit flavored candies, processed meats Moderate Aspartame, Sucralose, Non-nutritive Soda, white Saccharin, sweetener bread, sauces Moderate Beta carotene Coloring agent Soup Moderate Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow Artificial Food Color Chips, popsicles, 5, and Yellow 6 hard candies Moderate Enzymes Emulsifier or Yogurt, string processing aid cheese, Moderate Folic Acid Nutrient supplement Bread Moderate Gelatin Stabilizer or thickener Strawberry shredded wheat cereal, Moderate Guar Gum Stabilizer or thickener Popsicles, Moderate Sucralose Nutritive sweetener Moderate to Calcium Carbonate Nutritional additive Almond and soy Advanced (calcium beverage, white replacement) bread, Moderate to Calcium chloride Flavor agent (salty) Canned Advanced Preservative tomatoes, pickles Moderate to Carrageenan derived Emulsifier, stabilizer, Advanced from seaweed thickener Moderate to Citrate (potassium, Flavoring agent Almond Advanced sodium, calcium) pH control beverage, lemon (buffering) lime soda Nutritive Agent Moderate to Citric Acid Antimicrobial agent, Popsicle, Advanced enzyme, flavor Strawberry enhancer shredded wheat cereal, lemon- lime soda, chips, chips, Moderate to Maltodextrin or Thickener, stabilizer Better than Advanced Dextrose derived from Anticaking agent, Bouillon, chips, corn, rice, potato starch or wheat Moderate to Modified food starch Thickener Soup, Instant Advanced (corn, potato, tapioca, Stabilizer ramen, chips, wheat) Emulsifier bread, various instant foods Moderate to Potassium chloride Salt replacer Boxed pasta advanced naturally occurring salad, cereals, mineral derived from frozen entrees potash mining Moderate to Potato Starch Anticaking agent Shredded advanced Thickener cheese, Binder Moderate to Saccharin Non-nutritive advanced sweetener Moderate to Sodium Erythorbate Maintains freshness , cured Advanced and meats, cure accelerator beverages Moderate to Sodium Nitrite Form of salt for Bacon, cured Advanced preservation meats Moderate to Sodium phosphate Thickener Bacon, processed Advanced Preservative meats, canned Leavening agent tuna, boxed Emulsifier mashed potatoes Moderate to Soy Lecithin Emulsifying Almond Advanced Stabilizing beverage, Bread, cookies Moderate to Xanthan Gum Thickener Salad dressing Advanced Stabilizer Moderate to Yeast (autolyzed, Flavoring agent Soy sauce, advanced hydrolyzed) cheese sauce, chips, soups Moderate to Yeast extract Flavor enhancer, Instant ramen, advanced Fermenting aid white bread, Moderated to Lactic acid Preservative, curing Chips, bread Advanced or pickling agent, flavor enhancer https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=FoodSubstances&id=XANTHANGUM https://www.meatinstitute.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/125382 https://www.cargill.com/salt-in-perspective/potassium-chloride-food-faqs