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food additive

food additive noun: any nonfood substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life.

Noun

food additive (plural food additives)

  1. Any nonfood substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life.

food additive meaning in Vietnamese

food additive in Vietnamese

non-food substance added to food
phụ gia thực phẩm

Forms of food additive

pluralfood additives

Questions about food additive

What does food additive mean?
Food additive means any nonfood substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life.
What is food additive in Vietnamese?
Food additive in Vietnamese is phụ gia thực phẩm. See Food additive meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is food additive?
Food additive is a noun.
What is the plural of food additive?
The plural of food additive is food additives.

Words near food additive in the dictionary

  1. Foochow
  2. Foochowese
  3. Foochownese
  4. Foochows
  5. food
  6. food additive
  7. food additives
  8. food allergies
  9. food allergy
  10. food and board
  11. food art

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