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Food Additives & Ingredients Association
Understanding your food
This collection of resources produced by FAIA (Food Additives & Ingredients Association) explores the main classes of additives used in the food and drink industry and their functions and applications.
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Flavour
This resource investigates the use of flavourings in a milkshake. Natural and artificial vanilla flavourings are used to manufacture the product and a taste panel used to judge the preferred flavour. Costs of manufacture are also calculated in the activity.
Food colouring
This resource can be used to demonstrate an understanding of the role of food colourings in products. Activities include an extraction of the food colours used in sweets and then a separation of these colours using chromatography. A final task involves investigating how acid and alkali levels affect both natural...
Gelling agents
This resource investigates the use of pectin as a natural gelling agent in the manufacture of jams and preserves to retain their viscosity. A worksheet based task acts as an introduction, leading to investigations to identify the conditions necessary for gel formation using liquid pectin.
Introduction to food additives
This resource introduces students to the seven main classes of food additives used in the U.K. food and drinks industry. These comprise of preservatives, sweeteners, anti-caking agents, antioxidants, colours, flavourings and emulsifiers. A short video acts as a starting point to the activities that follow. A...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology, Food Technology, Food Preparation and Nutrition, Food science, Food choice |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
| Published by | 
Submitted by Jenny Toft-Eriksen on
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxh8sa |
