Chemicals in Food
Saccharin is the first artificial sweetener. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener that is approximately 550 times sweeter than sugar cane. Ortho Sulphobenzimide is the other name of Saccharin. It is a synthetic substance used in food and beverages in place of sugar. Artificial sweeteners are sweeter and have fewer calories than sucrose. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener that is a trichloro variant of sucrose. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that is 100 times sweeter than sugar cane and about 200 times as sweet as sugar. A number of countries including USA and UK have approved its use. Alitame is a more stable artificial sweetener than Aspartame. Alitame is 2000 times sweeter than sugar.
2. Food Preservatives
Food Preservatives are those that prevent food from spoiling due to the growth of microorganisms. Examples of Food Preservatives are Salt, Sugar, Vegetable Oils, Sodium Benzoate etc.
3. Food Additives
It is any chemical that food manufacturers intentionally add to one of their products. Some additives increase a food's nutritional value. Others improve the colour, flavour or texture of foods. Still others keep foods from spoiling. Common food additives include iodine, put into salt to prevent goitre and baking powder added to dough to make it rise. Some food additives come from other foods. Scientists also create many synthetic additives in the laboratory. Some people consider food additives dangerous to their health. But many of these chemicals occur naturally in foods that people have eaten for centuries.
4. Antioxidants in Food
These help to preserve food by reducing the action of oxygen on it. Example - Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT), Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA).
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