What are food preservatives? Give example

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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.

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