Name at Least One Food Additive and One Food Example

question 61

Essay

Name at least one food additive and one food example for the following food additive functions:
• Imparts or maintains consistency
• Improves or maintains nutritional value
• Maintains palatability and wholesomeness
• Produces light texture; controls acidity or alkalinity

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Definitions:

Carbon Dioxide Fixation

The process of converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into a usable form of carbon by living organisms, crucial in photosynthesis.

RuBP

Ribulose biphosphate, a molecule that acts as the acceptor of carbon dioxide in the first step of the Calvin cycle during photosynthesis.

Carbons

Chemical elements with the symbol C and atomic number 6, essential to all known life, and the basis of organic chemistry.

Electron Transport Chain

A series of complexes that transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors via redox reactions, and couples this electron transfer with the transfer of protons (H+ ions) across a membrane.