"food additive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: food additives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} food additive (plural food additives)
  1. Any non-food substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life Wikipedia link: food additive Related terms: E number Translations (non-food substance added to food): 食品添加劑 (Chinese Mandarin), 食品添加剂 (shípǐn tiānjiājì) (Chinese Mandarin), tilsætningsmiddel [neuter] (Danish), elintarvikelisäaine (Finnish), lisäaine (Finnish), additif alimentaire [masculine] (French), aditivo alimentario [masculine] (Galician), Lebensmittelzusatzstoff [masculine] (German), additivo alimentare [masculine] (Italian), 食品添加物 (shokuhin tenkabutsu) (alt: しょくひんてんかぶつ) (Japanese), aditivo alimentar [masculine] (Portuguese), пищевая добавка (piščevaja dobavka) [feminine] (Russian), livsmedelstillsats [common-gender] (Swedish), gıda katkısı (Turkish), gıda maddesi katkısı (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "non-food substance added to food",
      "word": "gıda katkısı"
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