What are food additives? “ * They are chemicals ,or ingredients which are ad to food products for maintaining their stability. + Additives are artificial or natural chemicals , added to food , for microbial and chemical stability of foods or delay or even stop food rancidity.Types of addi a 3 Additives may be: * natural — found naturally, such as extracts from beetroot juice , used as a colouring agent: * manmade versions — synthetic identical copies of substances found naturally, such as benzoic acid (E210), used as a preservative: * artificial — produced synthetically and not found naturally, used as a preservative in some dairy products and in semolina and tapioca puddings. ® Food ~@ fact of ite 2009Types of food additives: Direct or added deliberately to improve its sensory quality, stability, ease in processing and retention of quality during handling and retailing . Indirect or unintentional food additives which get included into foods incidentally during handling, processing and packaging. — Bad