Food additives and preservatives

Additives are substances added to foods to achieve a technological effect, usually to preserve or enhance the taste, appearance or other properties of the food. These include colours, sweeteners, thickening agents, flavour enhancers, preservatives, etc.

Preservatives, in particular, are substances added to products such as foods and beverages for the purpose of preventing spoilage by microbial growth or undesirable chemical changes.

At the Nutrition Labeling and Food Chemical Analysis Laboratory of BIOCHEMIKI Labs you can perform analyses for the following food additives and preservatives:

Nitrates
Nitrite
Sulphites
Benzoic acid – Benzoic acid – Benzoic salts
Sorbic acid – Sorbates
Lactic acid
Citric acid
Acetic acid
Regulation EC/1333/2008 concerning food additives (full list of additives and E-coding)