All About Food Additives
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Adult
- Subjects: Food Technology
- Produced By: VEA Group Pty Ltd
- Year: 2012
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
- Running Time: 20m
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Most foods that we purchase for every day consumption, and those that we eat a little less often, contain additives of various descriptions. In fact humans have been using food additives for thousands of years, including salt, spices, colorings and flavorings. This excellent program looks at food additives, including colors, flavors, emulsifiers, gelling agents and stabilizers, preservatives and antioxidants, and processing aids that gets added to our foods and why we use them. Lief Lundin, a food scientist discusses these additives, why we use them and what the impacts of their use on our food are.