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.

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