preservatives
preservatives Substances capable of retarding or arresting the deterioration of food; examples are sulphur dioxide, benzoic acid, specified antibiotics, salt, acids, and essential oils.
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Oleic Acid , oleic acid An unsaturated fatty acid with one double bond, CH3(CH2)7CH:CH(CH2)7COOH. Oleic acid is one of the most abundant constituent fatty acids o… Arachidonic Acid , arachidonic acid A polyunsaturated fatty acid, CH3(CH2)3(CH2CH:CH)4(CH2)3COOH, that is essential for growth in mammals (see eicosanoid). It can be sy… Isoleucine , isoleucine (I-soh-loo-seen) n. an essential amino acid. See also amino acid.
isoleucine An essential amino acid, rarely limiting in food; one of the… valine , valine (vay-leen) n. an essential amino acid. See also amino acid.
valine An aliphatic, non-polar, alpha-amino acid.
valine An essential amino acid,… Threonine , threonine An essential amino acid. It was the last of the protein amino acids to be discovered, in 1935, in studies of nitrogen balance on subjects f… Aspartic Acid , aspartic acid (aspartate) (ă-spar-tik) n. see amino acid.
aspartic acid (aspartate) A non‐essential amino acid.
aspartic acid An aliphatic, acidic, p…
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