Across
- 2. Additives to help products retain moisture
- 3. Generally recognized as safe.
- 5. Substances added to food to prevent or slow spoilage and maintain natural colors and flavors.
- 7. Chemicals that speed the aging process and whiten flower
- 8. Parts of food products that are generally recognized as safe
- 9. The zone between using an additive is safe.
- 11. The 3000 additives approved for use in foods.
- 12. A substance added to a food to cause a desired positive change in the products characteristics
- 15. Bars any additive found to cause cancer in animals or people
- 16. Use to keep powder and crystalline ingredients from caking
Down
- 1. Gets into foods unintentionally. EX: When milk is in a wax container some of the wax mixes into the milk
- 4. Preservatives that prevent microbe growth
- 6. Added on purpose. Used to give foods specific characteristics
- 10. An additive that alters or stabilizes the pH of a mixture.
- 13. Produced by combining an organic acid and an alcohol
- 14. Salts that have sulfer