Food Additives

How preservatives, hydrocolloids, colours and sweeteners work, and how to choose them.

• Food Additives

  How to Choose a Food Preservative: Sorbate, Benzoate, Propionate, Nisin and Natamycin Compared

  A product developer's guide to selecting preservatives by pH, target organism, product type and regulation, with the pKa science that explains why sorbate and benzoate fail in low-acid foods.

• Food Additives

  E-Numbers Explained: How the Food Additive Numbering System Works

  What E-numbers mean, how the ranges are organised by function, how they relate to the international INS system, and how food additives are labelled in the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia.