Food additives have greatly promoted the development of the food industry and are known as the soul of modern food industry. This is mainly because they bring many benefits to the food industry. Their main functions are as follows:

Prevent deterioration

For example, preservatives can prevent food from spoilage caused by microorganisms, extend the shelf life of food, and prevent food poisoning caused by microbial contamination. For another example, antioxidants can prevent or delay the oxidative deterioration of food to provide food stability and storage resistance, and also prevent the formation of potentially harmful lipid auto oxidants. In addition, it can also be used to prevent enzymatic browning and non enzymatic browning of foods, especially fruits and vegetables. These are of certain significance to the preservation of food.

Improve senses:Improve food sensory properties

Appropriate use of food additives such as colorants, color fixatives, bleaching agents, food spices, emulsifiers and thickeners can significantly improve the sensory quality of food and meet people's different needs.

Maintain nutrition:Maintain and improve nutritional value

The proper addition of some food nutrition fortifiers belonging to the natural nutrition range during food processing can greatly improve the nutritional value of food, which is of great significance to prevent malnutrition and nutrient deficiency, promote nutrition balance and improve people's health.

Convenient supply:Increase variety and convenience

There are more than 20000 kinds of food available for consumers to choose from in the market. Although most of these foods are produced through certain packaging and different processing methods, most of the products with complete color, flavor and taste are added with coloring, aroma enhancing, flavoring and other food additives to varying degrees in production engineering. It is these numerous foods, especially the supply of convenient food, that bring great convenience to people's life and work.

Convenient processing:Convenient food processing

The use of defoamers, filter aids, stabilizers and coagulants in food processing can be beneficial to food processing operations. For example, when using gluconic acid δ When lactone is used as the coagulant of tofu, it is beneficial to the mechanization and automation of tofu production.

Other roles:Other special needs

Food should meet people's different needs as much as possible. For example, if diabetics cannot eat sugar, they can use non nutritive sweeteners or low caloric sweeteners, such as sucralose or aspartyl phenylalanine methyl ester, to make sugar free food supplies.

Some enterprises have formulated their own additive standards, and the leading enterprises in the industry are not allowed to add preservatives, cyclamates, pigments and spices.