Chemical Additives

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Food Science

• Chemical Additives
• BY
• Cole, Eric, Gideon

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How
Where
Why
INTRO
When
What
Who
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What?!? Facts

• Did you know there are over 3000 different
  chemical additives companies put in food today
• Some of these additives in the food are known to
  cause cancer
• Some are also known to cause serious allergic
  reaction

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Back in the Day

• Believe it or not there was a time when Food came
  straight from the farms.
• But now almost all our food supplies have at
  least a little bit of additives in it.
• Even though those additives that are safe
  individually, they COULD still be harmful when
  mixed with another additive (and when one is
  present its most likely thered be more then
  one.

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Why?!?!

• Food additive are added to preserve the
  freshness of the product.
• To keep all the healthy/goodness of the food
  product longer
• When food is not tasty, good-looking or odd
  texture, food additives are added to make it
  better.

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Three classes of Chemical additives

• Benzoates (like sodium benzoate)
• Nitrites (like sodium nitrite)
• Sulphites (like sulphur dioxide)

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Scientific Why

• All the preserving additives are used to kill or
  slow down the process pathogens growth.
• They also prevent or slow the chemical reaction
  of oxidation of food.

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When?!?

• Up to 1950, the most chemical additives added
  with food was food colouring and it was a simple
  process.
• Now the process is not as simple as adding it and
  its a lot more then just food colouring.

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How?

• First there is the research part then
• When they find a working chemical additive, they
  just simply add it in the process of the food to
  make it preserved.

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Food additive companies

• Here are some companies that provide food
  additives that they add into our food supply
• B A.G Hulme - Essence and compound
  manufacturers for the soft drink industry.
• Casco Inc. - Canadian corn processor which
  manufactures corn syrup solids, dextrose,
  maltodextrin and starches.
• DPS - Producer of batters and breading systems.

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List of food

• Mostly everything you can get from the store have
  some kinda of chemical additives in them.
• Most of the food that people call junk food
  have tons of chemical additives.

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Who?!?

• Since almost everything has chemical additives,
  therefore most companies do have some kind of
  chemical additives.
• Pop (Pepsi)
• Chocolate (Hershey)
• Candy (Starburst)

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Advantages

• Yes, it does keep the food for a longer period of
  time
• It does give it a good taste to those product
  that taste bad.
• It help companies sell their products

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Disadvantages

• Some are known to cause cancer
• Food additives fire up children's hyperactivity
  study- CBC news

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Web Information

• http//www.faia.org.uk/chemicals.php
• http//www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm
• http//www.healthyeatingadvisor.com/food-additives
  .html
• http//recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-preservation
  8.htm
• http//www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/Food-
  Additives.htm
• http//www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/artificial.htm
• http//www.tradeeasy.com/manufacturers/chemical-an
  d-petroleum/chemical-additive.html
• http//www.google.ca/search?hlensafeactiveqfo
  odadditivescbcmeta

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Pictures

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• http//www.foodcomm.org.uk/Latest20news20images/
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• http//nayna.in/images/junkfood.jpg
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