The food additives belong to the food current, impossible to escape to them if his races in supermarket are made because one finds them in the cooked drinks, candies, dishes, ices etc and even in the meats and vegetables.

The principal families of food additives are:

Agents of texture, antioxydants, them dyes, conservatives, sweetening substances and suction pipes of taste.

The legislation forces to indicate to the consumers the use of food additives. It are of which indicated on the labels of the products most of the time in form codes.

 This site proposes a review of the principal additives, described their role, indicates their code in order to easily identify them. Certain additives are almost inoffensive like caramel used like dye in the colas or the ascorbic acid which corresponds to vitamin C and which is used as conservative. However the excessive consumption of additives is disadvised and the majority of the additives have a DJA (permissible amount day labourer) which gives an indication the maximum quantity of additives that one can consume each day without danger.

Some sites on the food additives and their dangers:

- The guide of the food additives

http://sm.coppier.free.fr/additifs/index.php3

A site indexing in a complete way the various additives (dangerous or not).

- Natural Universe

http://www.univers-nature.com/dossiers/additif-alimentaire-1.html

Complete records on the role of the food additives, their role and their dangers.

- Moktoipass

http://www.moktoipas.com/additifs/

Part of this site is devoted to the additives with in particular a page devoted to the additives halal/haram, a treating page of the additives vegetarian and a page which explains which are the hidden additives.

- Bioweight

http://www.bioweight.com/additif.html

Site denouncing the damage that one suspect to be caused by food additives.