Chemistry

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Chemistry

Food Additives - Names Starting with F

List of Additives and What They Do

By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com

Index of Food Additives

  • Farnesol - Flavoring Agent
  • Fast Green FCF - Color
  • Fast Red E - Color
  • Fennel Oil - Flavoring Agent
  • Ferric Ammonium Citrate - Anticaking Agent, Dietary Supplement, Drying Agent, Nutrient
  • Ferric Phosphate - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferric Pyrophosphate - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Ammonium Citrate, Brown - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Ammonium Citrate, Green - Anticaking Agent, Dietary Supplement, Drying Agent, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Fumarate - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Gluconate - Color Adjunct, Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Lactate - Color Adjunct
  • Ferrous Sulfate - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ferrous Sulfate, Dried - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Ficin - Enzyme
  • Fir Needle Oil, Canadian Type - Flavoring Agent
  • Fir Needle Oil, Siberian Type - Flavoring Agent
  • Folic Acid - Dietary Supplement, Nutrient
  • Food Starch, Modified - Binder, Filler, Gelling Agent, Plasticizer, Stabilizer, Suspending Agent, Thickener
  • Formic Acid - Flavoring Adjunct or Adjuvant, Preservative
  • Fructose - Carrier, Disintegrating Agent, Dispersing Agent, Formulation Aid, Nutritive Sweetener, Tableting Aid
  • Fumaric Acid - Acid, Acidifier, Flavoring Agent
  • Furfural - Extraction Solvent, Flavoring Agent

Recent Chemistry Features

Explore Chemistry

More from About.com

Chemistry

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Chemistry
  4. Everyday Chemistry
  5. Food & Cooking Chemistry
  6. Food Additives - Names Starting with F

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.