Benefits Of Food Additives

Since prehistory, food additives have been added to food. Food additives are substance, other than a basic foodstuff, that are added to the product to serve a technological or sensory function. Although basic food does not include food additives, a number of additives are generally added to process the food. For example to maintain taste, to enhance the appearance or prevent food perishability, and bacterial degradation. Today, more than 2500 additives are used to process the food (A.L. Branen, Davidson, Salminen, & Thorngate, 2001). Some customers regard the use of food additives, especially chemical produced ones. Food additives are unnatural, unhealthy or even a public risk according to those customers (Bearth, Cousin, & Siegrist, 2014). This article will explained the risk, and benefits of food additives.

One of the major benefits of food additives are a safer, and more nutritious food supply. Preservative, and nutritional additives increased the safety of the food, and making the food more healthy (A.L. Branen et al., 2001). For instance the use of antioxidants to prevent the formation of potentially toxic autoxidation product, and maintain the nutritional value of vitamins, and lipids The

Despite, the risk of food product without food additives, for example the safety risk of the formation of potentially toxic autoxidation product, are significantly higher than the use of food additives. Although the risk of food additives cannot fully be ruled out, the risk assessment system reduces the risk of the use of additives till a insignificant probability. Besides that the use of food additives is indispensable in this society. The giant amount of food product rise otherwise enormous in price or could not even be produced. In conclusion, the risk of food additives are generally insignificant, and the use is indisputable in the current food