Aaron McLean
Nutrition ND131_02 4:00-5:15
11/17/17
Lisa Darlymple
Food additives
When looking at the snacks you consume, the foods you cook in the microwave or just
any label in the back you may have wondered what is that ingredient. That’s possibly a food
additive which is a natural or artificial substance that is added to, or comes into contact with, a
food during production or processing. Food additives are misconceived in modern day because
the word artificial scares people or the name of the label scares them from the complex chemical
compound name. Though there are disadvantages of food additives the benefits outweigh them
