Additives: Producing Desired Characteristics in Foods
Across
- 5. bars the approval of any food additive found to cause cancer in humans or animals
- 7. over 600 additives that had been long used with no known health hazards were exempted from immediate testing and were recognized as safe
- 10. get into foods unintentionally
- 12. additive that alters or stabilizes the pH of a mixture
- 15. chemicals that would speed the aging process and whiten flour
Down
- 1. used to give foods specific characteristics or resistance to spoilage
- 2. more than 3,000 additives are approved for use in foods and most don't appear on the GRAS list
- 3. salts containing sulfur
- 4. a substance added to a food to cause a desired positive change in the product's characteristics
- 6. additives used to help products retain moisture
- 8. substances added to food to prevent slow spoilage and maintain natural colors and flavors
- 9. absorb moisture
- 11. component parts of food products that are generally safe
- 13. the zone between the concentration in which an additive is normally used and the level at which hazard exist
- 14. preservatives that prevent growth of microbes in food
- 16. produced by combining an organic acid and an alcohol