Food additives: distribution and co-occurrence in 126,000 food products of the French market.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 330 food additives (e.g. artificial sweeteners, emulsifiers, dyes) are authorized in Europe, with a great variability of use across food products.

Objective

The objective of this study was to investigate the distribution and co-occurrence of food additives in a large-scale database of foods and beverages available on the French market.

Design

The open access crowdsourced Open Food Facts database (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/) was used to retrieve the composition of food and beverage products commonly marketed on the French market (n = 126,556), based on the ingredients list. Clustering of food additive variables was used in order to determine groups of additives frequently co-occurring in food products. The clusters were confirmed by network a

SUBMITTER: Chazelas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055242 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature