Question

What are artificial sweetening agents and food preservatives? Give one example of each.

Answer 1

Artificial sweetening agents:
These are chemicals that do not occur in nature but are synthesized in the laboratory. They have sweet taste but no food value.
Examples include saccharin, aspartame, sucrulose and alitame.
Food preservatives:
These are substances, when added to food, are capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting, the process of fermentation, acidification or other decomposition of food by growth of microbes.
Examples include salt, sugar, vinegar, sodium benzoate, salts of sorbic acid and propionic acid etc.