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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:food additive
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Accession:CHEBI:64047 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any substance which is added to food to preserve or enhance its flavour and/or appearance.
Synonyms:related_synonym: food additives
 xref: Wikipedia:Food_additive



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    Term Annotations click to browse term
      CHEBI ontology 26489
        role 26310
          application 25572
            food additive 19103
              2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol 169
              3-decanone 0
              butylated hydroxyanisole 126
              caffeine + 3782
              calcium citrate 0
              ellagic acid + 166
              flavouring agent + 5148
              flour treatment agent + 8935
              foaming agent 0
              food acidity regulator + 12866
              food additive carrier + 6
              food anticaking agent + 208
              food antifoaming agent + 0
              food bleaching agent + 153
              food bulking agent + 94
              food colour retention agent + 811
              food colouring + 12223
              food emulsifier + 6
              food firming agent + 7
              food gelling agent + 0
              food glazing agent 0
              food humectant + 132
              food packaging gas + 4102
              food preservative + 13464
              food propellant + 1308
              food stabiliser + 94
              food thickening agent + 94
              gamma-decalactone 2
              raising agent + 8
              tin(II) chloride (anhydrous) + 15
    Path 2
    Term Annotations click to browse term
      CHEBI ontology 26489
        role 26310
          biological role 26289
            physiological role 26268
              food component 26260
                food additive 19103
                  2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol 169
                  3-decanone 0
                  butylated hydroxyanisole 126
                  caffeine + 3782
                  calcium citrate 0
                  ellagic acid + 166
                  flavouring agent + 5148
                  flour treatment agent + 8935
                  foaming agent 0
                  food acidity regulator + 12866
                  food additive carrier + 6
                  food anticaking agent + 208
                  food antifoaming agent + 0
                  food bleaching agent + 153
                  food bulking agent + 94
                  food colour retention agent + 811
                  food colouring + 12223
                  food emulsifier + 6
                  food firming agent + 7
                  food gelling agent + 0
                  food glazing agent 0
                  food humectant + 132
                  food packaging gas + 4102
                  food preservative + 13464
                  food propellant + 1308
                  food stabiliser + 94
                  food thickening agent + 94
                  gamma-decalactone 2
                  raising agent + 8
                  tin(II) chloride (anhydrous) + 15
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