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Hello Kids
Hello Kids
Most food
and join me to another exciting lesson that we manufacturers use additives in their products to
will explore today, so are you ready? Let’s start either enhance the flavor, give it a more
now. desirable appearance or to change its colour.
Some of the most common additives found in
food include salt, vinegar, sweeteners, citric
So today I’m going to show you the distinct acid and food colouring.
characteristics of some materials that you know
• Monosodium glutamate(vetsin)
or maybe you don’t even know. our lesson for
today is Characteristics of Useful and Harmful • Citric acid
materials.
• Food color
Very good! Catsup, soy sauce, butter etc are • Sodium benzoate
materials that add flavors are condiments • Sodium nitrite
So what is a CONDIMENT? …A condiment is So those materials are useful materials because
a spice, sauce, or preparation that is added to it can clean, give taste our food and can
food, typically after cooking, to impart a preserved food to fresh and safe to eat.
specific flavor, to enhance the flavor, or to
complement the dish.
Kids look at the pictures… what have you seen? Very good! it is harmful if it is at toxic,
Yes! We have Monosodium glutamate(vetsin) flammable,corrosive and reactive.
Citric acid Food color Sodium chloride What is toxic? Toxic
(salt)Sodium… and other seasoning. These
materials are examples of MATERIALS THAT What about materials that are flammable?
ENHANCE the taste of our food Flammable