Food additives

Food additives can prevent food from 

• spoiling/ developing mold 
• tasting bad 
• looking good 
• being good quality 

Salt is a food additive added to....

• Bread
• Bacon
• Bananas 
• Fish

Chewing gum has what food additive....

• Flavoring agents 
• Salt
• Sugar substitutes 
• Fat substitues

Food Additives make food safer to eat 

• True 
• False 
• Sometimes 

Excessive use of food additives are

• okay and normal 
• can be poisonous 

Some food additives improve and maintain the nutritional value of the food 

• True 
• False 

Food additives are a modern invention 

• True 
• False 
• Some additives are modern

Coloring agents can be made from petroleum 

• True 
• False 

Stabilizers are added to...

• candy
• pudding
• bread
• fruits

Fat substitues...

• have less calories than regular fat 
• are used to make food taste better 
• are worse than actual fat 
• are used in the production of high-calories foods