What is compound food additive

Compound food additive is a formula mixture containing two or more food additives. According to the definition of National food standard, compound food additive is a kind of food additive which is made by physical mixing of two or more single kinds of food additives with or without excipients in order to improve food quality and facilitate food processing. Among them  (Thailand food Ingredient supplier) , "excipients" refers to the food raw materials added for the processing, storage and dissolution of compound food additives.

Compound food additives should not only be a simple superposition of two kinds of food additives, but also refer to the improvement of physical chemistry and biological activity of new compound products through optimized compounding and other technologies, so as to meet the needs of some food use.

Some basic principles should be observed when using compound food additives  (Thailand food flavour wholesale) , such as all kinds of food additives used in the production of compound food additives should comply with the provisions announced by National food standard and the Ministry of Health, and have a common scope of use. In order to achieve the desired results, the dosage in food should be reduced as much as possible, chemical reactions should not occur in the production process  (Thailand food flavour supplier) , no new compounds should be produced, and so on. To ensure that the use of compound food additives will not cause any health hazards to the human body.

In order to ensure the safety of compound food additives, there are clear limits on the content of harmful heavy metals, such as arsenic and lead should not be higher than 2.0 mg / kg. Commonly used compound food additives are compound colorants, compound preservatives, compound flavors / spices  (Thailand food flavour supplier) , etc.