FOOD ADDITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does food additive mean? 

• FOOD ADDITIVE (noun)
  The noun FOOD ADDITIVE has 1 sense:

1. an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life

  Familiarity information: FOOD ADDITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOD ADDITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

artificial additive; food additive

Hypernyms ("food additive" is a kind of...):

additive (something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine)

 Context examples 

An oligosaccharide derived from starch that is used as a food additive and as a carbohydrate supplement.

(Maltodextrin, NCI Thesaurus)

A food additive which duplicates the effect of sugar on the taste, but with fewer calories.

(Artificial Sweetener, NCI Thesaurus)

A semisynthetic, high viscosity polymer used as a food additive which may have the ability to lower total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).

(Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose D, NCI Thesaurus)

The proprietary absorption enhancer is a GRAS (generally-recognized-as-safe) food additive.

(Enteric-Coated Zoledronic Acid Tablet MER-101, NCI Thesaurus)

It can be manufactured and used for a variety of things such as a pharmacologic agent to produce anesthesia, a food additive as a propellant, and an additive to fuels to increase available oxygen in combustion.

(Nitrous Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)