Additive categories

• acidity regulators
• anti-caking agents
• anti-foaming
• antioxidants
• bulking agents
• carriers
• colours
• emulsifiers
• emulsifying salts
• firming agent
• flavour enhancers
• flour treatment agents
• foaming agents
• gelling agents
• glazing agents
• humectants
• modified starches
• packaging gases
• preservatives
• propellants
• raising agents
• sequestrant
• solvents
• stabilisers
• sweetener
• thickeners

Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.

Code	Material	CEFF approved
E 170	Calcium carbonate	Yes
E 249	Potassium nitrite	No
E 250	Sodium nitrite	No
E 251	Sodium nitrate	No
E 252	Potassium nitrate	No
E 263	Calcium acetate	Yes
E 327	Calcium lactate	Yes
E 331	Sodium citrates	Yes
E 332	Potassium citrates	Yes
E 335	Sodium tartrates	Yes
E 336	Potassium tartrates	Yes
E 337	Sodium potassium tartrate	Yes
E 339	Sodium phosphates	Yes
E 340	Potassium phosphates	Yes
E 400	Alginic acid	Yes
E 401	Sodium alginate	Yes
E 402	Potassium alginate	Yes
E 403	Ammonium alginate	Yes
E 404	Calcium alginate	Yes
E 405	Propane-1,2-diol alginate	Yes
E 406	Agar	Yes
E 407	Carrageenan	Yes
E 407a	Processed eucheuma seaweed	Yes
E 410	Locust bean gum; carob gum	Yes
E 412	Guar gum	Yes
E 413	Tragacanth	Yes
E 414	Acacia gum; gum arabic	Yes
E 415	Xanthan gum	Yes
E 416	Karaya gum	Yes
E 417	Tara gum	Yes
E 418	Gellan gum	Yes
E 426	Soybean hemicellulose	Yes
E 431	Polyoxyethene (40) stearate	Yes
E 432	Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate; Polysorbate 20	Yes
E 433	Polyoxyethylene sorbitan mono-oleate; Polysorbate 80	Yes
E 434	Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monopalmitate; Polysorbate 40	Yes
E 435	Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monostearate; (Polysorbate 60, Tween 60)	Yes
E 436	Polyoxyethylene sorbitan tristearate; (Polysorbate 65, Tween 65)	Yes
E 440	Pectins	Yes
E 444	Sucrose acetate isobutyrate	Yes
E 445	Glycerol esters of wood rosins	Yes
E 450	Diphosphates	Yes
E 452	Polyphosphates	Yes
E 459	Beta-cyclodextrin	Yes
E 461	Methyl cellulose	Yes
E 462	Ethyl cellulose	Yes
E 463	Hydroxypropyl cellulose	Yes
E 464	Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose	Yes
E 465	Ethyl methyl cellulose	Yes
E 466	Carboxy methyl cellulose	Yes
E 468	Crosslinked sodium carboxy methyl cellulose	Yes
E 469	Enzymatically hydrolysed carboxy methyl cellulose	Yes
E 470 (a)	Sodium, potassium and calcium salts of fatty acids	Yes
E 470 (b)	Magnesium salts of fatty acids	Yes
E 471	Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids	Yes
E 472	Acetic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids	Yes
E 481	Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate	Yes
E 482	Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate	Yes
E 501	Potassium carbonates	Yes
E 504	Magnesium carbonates	Yes
E 511	Magnesium chloride	Yes
E 512	Stannous chloride	Yes
E 517	Ammonium sulphate	Yes
E 522	Aluminium potassium sulphate	Yes
E 523	Aluminium ammonium sulphate	Yes
E 528	Magnesium hydroxide	Yes
E 579	Ferrous gluconate	Yes
E 585	Ferrous lactate	Yes
E 965	(i) Maltitol, (ii) Maltitol syrup	No
E 967	Xylitol	Yes
E 968	Erythritol	Yes
E 1103	Invertase	Yes
E 1200	Polydextrose	Yes
E 1201	Polyvinylpyrrolidone	Yes
E 1202	Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone	Yes
E 1404	Oxidised starch	Yes
E 1410	Monostarch phosphate	Yes
E 1412	Distarch phosphate	Yes
E 1413	Phosphated distarch phosphate	Yes
E 1414	Acetylated distarch phosphate	Yes
E 1420	Acetylated starch	Yes
E 1422	Acetylated distarch adipate	Yes
E 1440	Hydroxyl propyl starch	Yes
E 1442	Hydroxy propyl distarch phosphate	Yes
E 1450	Starch sodium octenyl succinate	Yes
E 1451	Acetylated oxidised starch	Yes
E 1452	Starch aluminium Octenyl succinate	Yes
E 1505	Triethyl citrate	Yes