Food Additives & Analogues

Any substance a food producer intentionally adds to a food for a specific purpose such as adding color, keeping food better for longer, enhancing flavor, keeping mixtures stable...etc.

• GRAS List

• Delaney Clause

• Food Additive

• Food Analogue

• Adulturation

Says that any food additive known to cause cancer (i.e. a known carcinogen) in food or animals may not be added to food.

• Delaney Clause

• Santa Clause

• Carcinogen Clause

• GRAS List Caluse

Substances such as spices, natural seasonings and flavorings that are considered safe for human consumption and are not regulated as additives.

• Delaney Clause

• GRAS List

• Preservatives

• Enrichment

Preservatives affect foods flavor, color or texture.

• True

• False

All food additives are bad for you.

• True

• False

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 

Food coloring agents, like red dye #40 and other artificial food colors, can be made from petroleum 

• True 

• False 

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Food additives are a modern invention 

• True 

• False 

• Some additives are modern, others have been used for thousands of years or more

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

Some food additives, such as those found in enriched and/or fortified foods, improve and maintain the nutritional value of the food 

• True 

• False 

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Food additives can prevent food from 

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