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Food Additives
Food additives are chemical substances added to food during processing. Food additives have several purposes including enhancing color and flavor and preserving the food.
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How do you use anti caking agent 341?
All I can tell you is that 341, Is Calcium Phosphate
From wikipedia
Calcium dihydrogen phosphate is also used in the food industry as a leavening agent to cause baked goods to rise. Because it is acidic, when combined with an alkali ingredient - commonly sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) or potassium bicarbonate - it reacts to produce carbon dioxide and a salt. The carbon dioxide gas is what leavens the baked good. When combined in a ready-made baking powder, the acid and alkali ingredients are included in the right proportions such that they will exactly neutralize each other and not significantly affect the overall pH of the product.Apart from acting as leavening agent, it also inhibits microbial activity because of the phosphate ions present in the molecule"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_dihydrogen_phosphate
Examples of food preservatives?
A preservative is a substance that is added to products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, biological samples, wood, etc. to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes.
Some examples are:
Antimicrobials, such as lactic acid, nitrate, nitrite, and hydroxybenzoate.
Oxidation prevention preservative, such as ascorbic acid sodium ascorbate and butylated hydroxytoluene.
Natural (non synthetic) preservatives, such as ascorbic acid, citric acid, salt, and vinegar.
For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservative
Why does baking soda rise when it is added to some foods?
The baking soda does not rise.
It produces a chemical reaction that gives off carbon dioxide, CO2.
It's the evolved CO2 gas that causes rising.
You can also let yeast do the same thing, it just takes longer.
When food was hard to come by in the South during the war, egg whites and butter were mixed as a substitute for milk. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865.
ice cream and milk actually shouldn't separate when blended, but I believe that pectin helps. It's a fruit-based additive that acts as an emulsifier.
They aren't separating. The ice cream is melting and the part that is still frozen and has some ice crystals in it is floating over the melted part.
White flour has been improved with the addition of nutrients, white rice has been enriched with iron, and salt has added iodine.
