List of Food Additives - S

S

• Saccharin - artificial sweetener
• Safflower oil - a flavorless and colorless cooking oil.
• Safflower -
• Saffron - color
• Saigon Cinnamon -
• Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor or Poterium sanguisorba)
• Salt -
• Sandalwood - color
• Savory (Satureja hortensis, S. montana)
• Scarlet GN - color
• Sesame oil - used as a cooking oil, and as a massage oil, particularly in India.
• Sesame seed -
• Shellac - glazing agent
• Silicon dioxide - anti-caking agent
• Silver - color (silver)
• Luohanguo
• Sodium acetate - preservative, acidity regulator
• Sodium adipate - food acid
• Sodium alginate - thickener, vegetable gum, stabilizer, gelling agent, emulsifier
• Sodium aluminium phosphate - acidity regulator, emulsifier
• Sodium aluminosilicate (sodium aluminium silicate) - anti-caking agent
• Sodium ascorbate - antioxidant (water soluble)
• Sodium benzoate - preservative
• Sodium bicarbonate - mineral salt
• Sodium bisulfite (sodium hydrogen sulfite) - preservative, antioxidant
• Sodium carbonate - mineral salt
• Sodium carboxymethylcellulose - emulsifier
• Sodium citrates - food acid
• Sodium dehydroacetate - preservative
• Sodium erythorbate - antioxidant
• Sodium erythorbin - antioxidant
• Sodium ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
• Sodium ferrocyanide - anti-caking agent
• Sodium formate - preservative
• Sodium fumarate - food acid
• Sodium gluconate - stabiliser
• Sodium hydrogen acetate - preservative, acidity regulator
• Sodium hydroxide - mineral salt
• Sodium lactate - food acid
• Sodium malates - food acid
• Sodium metabisulfite - preservative, antioxidant, bleaching agent
• Sodium methyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
• Sodium nitrate - preservative, color fixative
• Sodium nitrite - preservative, color fixative
• Sodium orthophenyl phenol - preservative
• Sodium propionate - preservative
• Sodium propyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
• Sodium sorbate - preservative
• Sodium stearoyl lactylate - emulsifier
• Sodium succinates - acidity regulator, flavor enhancer
• Sodium salts of fatty acids - emulsifier, stabiliser, anti-caking agent
• Sodium sulfite - mineral salt, preservative, antioxidant
• Sodium sulfite - preservative, antioxidant
• Sodium tartrates - food acid
• Sodium tetraborate - preservative
• Sorbic acid - preservative
• Sorbitan monolaurate - emulsifier
• Sorbitan monooleate - emulsifier
• Sorbitan monopalmitate - emulsifier
• Sorbitan monostearate - emulsifier
• Sorbitan tristearate - emulsifier
• Sorbitol - humectant, emulsifier, sweetener
• Sorbol -
• Sorrel (Rumex spp.) -
• Soybean oil - accounts for about half of worldwide edible oil production.
• Spearmint oil - often used in flavoring mouthwash and chewing gum, among other applications.
• Star anise -
• Star anise oil - highly fragrant oil using in cooking. Also used in perfumery and soaps, has been used in toothpastes, mouthwashes, and skin creams. 90% of the world's star anise crop is used in the manufacture of Tamiflu, a drug used to treat avian flu.
• Starch sodium octenylsuccinate - thickener, vegetable gum
• Stearic acid - anti-caking agent
• Stearyl tartarate - emulsifier
• Succinic acid - food acid
• Sucralose - artificial sweetener
• Sucroglycerides - emulsifier
• Sucrose acetate isobutyrate - emulsifier, stabiliser
• Sucrose esters of fatty acids - emulsifier
• Sugar -
• Sulfur dioxide - preservative, antioxidant
• Sulfuric acid - acidity regulator
• Sumac -
• Sunflower oil - a common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel.
• Sunset Yellow FCF - color (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #6)
• Sweet basil -
• Sweet woodruff -
• Szechuan pepper (Xanthoxylum piperitum) -