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  2. Peppermint extract - Wikipedia

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    Peppermint extract is commonly used in cooking, as a dietary supplement, as an herbal or alternative medicine, as a pest repellent, and a flavor or fragrance agent for cleaning products, cosmetics, mouthwash, chewing gum, and candies. [1] [2] Its active ingredient menthol causes a cold sensation when peppermint extract is consumed or used ...

  3. List of food additives - Wikipedia

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    Pecan oil – valued as a food oil, but requiring fresh pecans for good quality oil. [9] Pectin – vegetable gum, emulsifier; Perilla seed oil – high in omega-3 fatty acids. Used as an edible oil, for medicinal purposes, in skin care products and as a drying oil. Phosphated distarch phosphate – thickener, vegetable gum; Phosphoric acid ...

  4. Peppermint - Wikipedia

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    Peppermint is used for flavouring ice cream, candy, fruit preserves, alcoholic beverages, chewing gum, toothpaste, and some shampoos, soaps, and skin care products. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Menthol activates cold-sensitive TRPM8 receptors in the skin and mucosal tissues, and is the primary source of the cooling sensation that follows the topical ...

  5. Reducing pesticides in food: Major food manufacturers earn an ...

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    Seventeen major food manufacturers earned an average grade of F for their lack of progress in reducing pesticides in the products they sell, according to a new analysis by As You Sow, a nonprofit ...

  6. Food Chemicals Codex - Wikipedia

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    The Food Protection Committee started in 1961 to provide objective quality standards for food-grade chemicals. Parts of the first edition were published in loose-leaf form between 1963 and 1966. The scope of the first edition is limited to substances amenable to chemical characterization or biological standardization which are added directly to ...

  7. Eucalyptus brassiana - Wikipedia

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    Eucalyptus brassiana, commonly known as Cape York gum, gum-topped peppermint or as karo in PNG [3] is a small to medium-sized tree that is native to northern Queensland and PNG. It has rough, hard, fissured bark on the trunk and smooth greyish bark on the branches, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers ...

  8. Eucalyptus elata - Wikipedia

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    Eucalyptus elata, commonly known as the river peppermint or river white gum, [2] is a species of medium to tall tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, compacted bark on the lower trunk, smooth bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, green to yellow flower buds arranged in groups of eleven to thirty or more, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.

  9. Clorets - Wikipedia

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    Clorets is a line of chewing gum and mints made by Cadbury Adams. It was introduced in 1951. It was introduced in 1951. Clorets gum and candy contain Actizol, a proprietary ingredient that contains chlorophyll , which purportedly acts as an active ingredient to eliminate mouth odors . [ 1 ]