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anti-caking agents

 
Food and Nutrition: anti-caking agents

Compounds added in small amounts to powdered foodstuffs to prevent clumping or caking—e.g. anhydrous disodium hydrogen phosphate is added to salt and icing sugar, aluminium calcium silicate or calcium or magnesium carbonate to table salt, calcium silicate to baking powder.

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