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  2. List of food additives - Wikipedia

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    Humectants prevent foods from drying out. Tracer gas Tracer gas allow for package integrity testing to prevent foods from being exposed to atmosphere, thus guaranteeing shelf life. Preservatives Preservatives prevent or inhibit spoilage of food due to fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms. Stabilizers

  3. Flour bleaching agent - Wikipedia

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    Use of chlorine, bromates, and peroxides is not allowed in the European Union. [ 1 ] Bleached flour improves the structure-forming capacity, allowing the use of dough formulas with lower proportions of flour and higher proportions of sugar [ citation needed ] .

  4. Chlorine dioxide - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine dioxide is used for bleaching of wood pulp and for the disinfection (called chlorination) of municipal drinking water, [16] [17]: 4–1 [18] treatment of water in oil and gas applications, disinfection in the food industry, microbiological control in cooling towers, and textile bleaching. [19]

  5. Halogen - Wikipedia

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    Human blood contains an average of 0.3% chlorine. Human bone typically contains 900 parts per million of chlorine. Human tissue contains approximately 0.2 to 0.5% chlorine. There is a total of 95 grams of chlorine in a typical 70-kilogram human. [7] Some bromine in the form of the bromide anion is present in all organisms.

  6. Zinc deficiency - Wikipedia

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    Zinc gluconate tablets Zinc rich foods. Oysters, beef, peanuts, dark chicken meat. Five interventional strategies can be used: Adding zinc to soil, called agronomic biofortification, which both increases crop yields and provides more dietary zinc. Adding zinc to food, called food fortification. The Republic of China, India, Mexico, and about 20 ...

  7. Plant nutrition - Wikipedia

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    In relatively large amounts, the soil supplies nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur; these are often called the macronutrients. In relatively small amounts, the soil supplies iron, manganese, boron, molybdenum, copper, zinc, chlorine, and cobalt, the so-called micronutrients. Nutrients must be available not only in ...

  8. Food - Wikipedia

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    Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

  9. Mineral (nutrient) - Wikipedia

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    The generally accepted trace elements are iron, chlorine, cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, iodine, selenium, [5] and bromine; [6] there is some evidence that there may be more. The four organogenic elements, namely carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen ( CHON ), that comprise roughly 96% of the human body by weight, [ 7 ] are ...