Food Additives In Food

Introduction:-

As the world moves towards new discoveries, inventions, life styles have been drastically altered as well, the homo sapiens that we use to know have evolved themselves, in every field of life. However, when it came down to food, there has always been a risk of hazards and the intake of chemically synthesized material which has become a blessing and a consequence that we have to pay for the modernism. Yet, the demand for safer and fresh produce still remains a question. As the world population increases by the every second, the need for greater food supply keeps on growing. For this bigger demand preservation of food becomes a necessity. And this is where the word food additives begin. Food additives have gotten a major attention in the food scientist of the world, and are the most visited areas of science now.

As the world is beginning to found more and more additives, a lot of the world’s consumers feel harassed by its use. It has still become a main concern of the critics; however, the tug of war has still been taking place between the two jury.

FOOD ADDITIVES:-

The chemical substance that are used to be added in the food( Alabama A and M and Auburn universities). The following are the main objectives of food additives:-

To keep or increase the nutritional value of the food which went through a harsh treatment, destroyed during processing. E.g vitamin C, vitamin B, iodine and vitamin D.

To increase the keeping quality of the food by adding antioxidant, natural colors and flavor.

To increase its processing quality or ease of processing.

However, the food laws made by different agencies have issues now, by occasional congressional interventions that keep on threatening the FDA, who have the soul focus of the public ...

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Rats refused to swim and their immobility was observed.

It was also observed that the rats became antisocial after the intake of high dose of tartrazine, their amount of time in the social interaction wa decreased significantly.

The forced swim test is conducted to understand the depression in rats ( Raghavandra et al. 2000). It was observed that they showed higher levels of immobility a potential index of depression like behavior a reaction to their stress.( Sanchez and Meier, 1997).

Also the intake of tartrazine resulted in depression response and has been outlined in children also showing clinical depression, migraines and sleep disturbance ( Rowe and Rowe, 1994)

(November et at. 1992) has been reported tartrazine and benzoates resulted in unusual reaction in the central nervour system causing headache , overactivity , learning difficulty and depression.