Food & Beverage industries
Food additive refers to a kind of natural or artificially synthetic chemicals which can improve the sensory properties (color, smell, taste) of food and food quality.
The role of food additives in food & Beverage:
(1) Sweeteners
It can be used to make food or beverage with a certain moderate sweetness, which can improve the taste. It can be also meet the different requirements of people. For example, patients of diabetes can’t eat sugar; then you can use non-nutritive sweeteners or low-calorie sweetener to manufacture sugar-free food and low-sugar low-energy food.
Products Like Aspartame, saccharin sodium, sorbitol, sucralose etc.
(2)Preservatives
It can facilitate the preservation of food, prevent the corruption and deterioration of food. A variety of fresh food, such as vegetable oils, margarine, biscuits, bread, cakes, moon cake, etc.,
Products like Potassium Sorbate, Sodium erythorbate.
(3)Acidulants
In food industry, it is used as leavening agent, dough modifier, buffer, nutritional supplement, emulsifier, and stabilizer e.g. It is applied as leavening agent for flour, cake, pastry, bakery, as quality modifier for bread, and fried food.
Also be applied in biscuit, milk powder, drinks, ice cream as nutrient supplement or quality improver. In pharmaceutical industry, it is often used as an additive in the producing of Calcium Tablet or other tablets.
In daily chemical industry-toothpaste, it is used as friction agent.
Products like Calcium phosphate dibasic, citric acid, magnesium citrate
(4)Thickeners
It can improve the texture, consistency, flavor, shelf life and appearance of many foods.
Products like Xanthan Gum, Pectin
Nutrition Supplements
Nutritional supplements are generally fortified with plant and animal extracts of natural origin, such as amino acids, vitamins and folic acid, ginseng extracts, etc. They can meet the body's needs for various nutrients and improve physical fitness.
For example, Creatine as a nitrogen-containing organic acid found naturally in vertebrates, which can effectively help us replenish phosphogen, and the supplement of phosphogen can help us replenish ATP, thereby improving our exercise performance and improving our ability to maintain high-intensity exercise, which can also increase muscle mass, strength, athletic performance, and prevent muscle damage.
Products like L-carnitine Tartrate, creatine monohydrate
Feed additive industry
Because of the lack of some micronutrients in feed, livestock and poultry are prone to nutrient deficiency and nutrient metabolism disorders, which affect the growth and development of livestock and poultry and cause economic losses. The proper use of additives in feed can strengthen the nutritional value of basic feed, improve feed utilization, give full play to the production potential of livestock and poultry, and improve the productivity of livestock and poultry.
Products like Florfenicol, colistin sulfate, Albendazole
Bio-pharmaceutical industry
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients(API’s) are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, which can be used for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic coma, fatty liver, diabetes, etc.
Products like Alpha lipoic acid, Aspirin, Amoxicillin.