Essays on Food Additives

Spices are extensively used as flavor, color, and aroma and also for the preservation of food or beverages. As from many parts of the plant spices may be derived e. g. bark, buds, fruits, leaves, rhizomes, flowers, roots, seeds, stigmas and styles or the entire...

By the end of the 21st century, biotechnology is likely to touch the lives of most peoples through its application in areas such as food production and medicine. Food biotechnology as applied to food production in most developing countries makes use of microbial inoculants to...

“About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” (FDA). Food additives have been slowly added to food more and more...

The modern world is filled with processed foods everywhere we look. Unfortunately, these are the polar opposite of what we need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Some foods contain ingredients that can ruin your health without you even noticing. In my opinion, people are not...

Introduction Food additives have been around for millennia. The most famous traditional food additive being salt which was used mostly to cure meat. There are multiple types of food additives and they all do different things e. g. preservatives make it possible for food to...

Food additives are often over looked as people believe they are harmless and only come in very few forms, but in reality there many different forms of food additives and a lot of them are not as harmless as people thinks they are. The aim...

Hemp, also called cannabis, is a resourceful plant with many great benefits that can help people all over the world. Hemp is widely known and has been grown for centuries because of its many capabilities. The production and growth of the hemp plant improves modern...

The spice ginger is obtained from the underground stems or rhizomes of Zingiber officinale (Rosc. ). It is herbaceous tropical perennial that belongs to the family Zingiberaceae. It is usually grown as an annual. The whole plant is refreshingly aromatic. It is the raw or...