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Food Acids

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Food Acids 

carboxylic acids used in the food-processing industry to preserve foods and to impart to them a pleasant, slightly tart taste. Examples are citric, lactic, tartaric, acetic, malic, and sorbic acids, which are used in the manufacture of such food products as confectioneries, nonalcoholic beverages, food concentrates—for example jelly and kisel’ (a starch-thickened fruit jelly)—jams, compotes, and sauces.



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Not only does chewing stimulate saliva, which helps to clear food particles from teeth, it can also reduce the number of plaque bacteria in the mouth and neutralise food acids that attack tooth enamel.
The pre-treatments included food acids, salts and the enzyme asparaginase.
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