Close-up of the ingredients label from a packet of chewy sweets of assorted flavours. In addition to the assortment of fruit juices used to flavour each packet of sweets,a number of additives are used to give each type a distinctive colour. Each chemical colouring agent used is denoted by a peculiar E number. E numbers are used throughout the processed food industry to denote a wide range of additives including: preservatives,flavour enhancers (eg monosodium glutamate),colourings and emulsifiers. Certain chemical additives in foodstuff have been implicated in a range of medical conditions from hyperactivity in children to cancers in adults | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / McClenaghan, Andrew |
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