Sweeteners and Food Additives
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Sweeteners and Food Additives covers ingredients used to change sweetness, texture, stability, acidity, color, shelf life or processing behavior in packaged foods and nutrition products. The group includes caloric and high-intensity sweeteners, sugar alcohols, gums, emulsifiers, acids, starches, preservatives, colors, antioxidants and anti-caking agents. These substances serve very different technical roles, so an ingredient should be interpreted by its specific function and label context rather than by the broad word “additive.”