MODULE 1 PART 4: Consumer Products Flashcards
What are the four (4) types of Consumer Products?
- Food Additives
- Active Ingredients
- Cleaning Agents
- Cosmetics
These are substances added to food and/or beverages to improve flavor and appearance. They are also used to preserve the natural taste of food.
- Food Additives
These are substances that are biologically active. They are used mostly in pharmaceutical drugs and commodities like soap, poweders, and others.
- Active Ingredients
These are substanes that are used to remove dirt, along with dust, stains, clutter, and foul odor. They may also kill some harmful microorganisms in the cleaning process.
- Cleaning Agents
These are substances that enhance the consumer’s appearance. ___ also improve the consumer’s fragrance.
- Cosmetics
What are the four (4) classifications in Food Additives?
- Sensory Agents (Colorants, Flavourings, Sweetener, Aromatics)
- Nutritional Additives (Minerals, Vitamins)
- Preservative
- Processing Agents
What classification of Food Additive is Colorants, Flavourings, Sweetener, and Aromatics under?
- Sensory Agents
What classification of Food Additive is Minerals and Vitamins under?
- Nutritional Additives
What is used to add colors to foods?
- Colorants
What are the two (2) variants of colorants?
- Natural
- Synthetic
What colorant is derived or extracted from natural sources?
- Natural
What colorant is artifically created?
- Synthetic
What are the natural colorants?
Betacyanin = red (Beta vulagris, betanin)
Anthocyanin = red (Fragaria species of strawberrym pesargonidin-3-glucoside), blue (Vitis species of grapes, malvidin-3-glucoside)
Carotenoids
- yellow/orange = Bixa orellana (annatto seeds/atsuete), bixin
- yellow = Crocus sativus (saffron), crocin
- red/orange = Capsicum onnsum (paprika), capsandin
- Orange = Daucus carrota (carrot), beta-carotene
- red = Cantharellus cinnabarinus (mushroom), cantaxanthin
- ophendics = orange/yellow = Curcuma longa (zingiberaceae) (turmeric), curcumin
what is the scientific name for Annatto seeds?
- Bixa Orellana
what is the scientific name for Saffron?
- Crocus Sativus
what is the scientific name for Paprika?
- Capsicum Onnsum
what is the scientific name for Carrots?
- Daucus Carrota
what is the scientific name for Mushroom?
- Cantharellus Cinnabarinus
what is the scientific name for Turmeric?
- Curcuma Longa
What are the vitamins in nutritional additives that are usually added to food products?
- Vitamins A,D,E,K
- Vitamin B complex
- Vitamin C
What does Vitamins A,D,E,K stand for?
- Vit. A = retinol/A1 = beta-carotene
- Vit. D = colicalciferol
- Vit. E = tocopherol
- Vit. K = phylloquinone/menaquinone
what vitamin is retinol?
- Vitamin A
what vitamin is colicalciferol?
- Vitamin D
what vitamin is tocopherol?
- Vitamin E
what vitamin is phylloquinone/menaquinone?
- Vitamin K
What are the eight (8) vitamins in vitamin B complex?
- B1 = Thiamine
- B2 = Riboflavin
- B3 = Niacin, Niacinamide
- B5 = Panthotenic Acid
- B6 = Pyridoxine, pyridoxamine
- B7 = Biotin
- B9 = Follate, Follic Acid
- B12 = Cobalamin = Methylcobalamin, Cyanocobalamin, Hydroxacobalamin