E1440 – Hydroxypropylstarch
Description: Thickening agent. Prepared by treating starch with propyleneoxide. The resulting starch is more stable against acid, alkaline and starch degrading enzymes. It also provides better colour and shine to products.
Products: Many food products.
Side effects: It may slow down the degradation of food in the intestine.
E1441- Hydoxypropyl di-starch glycerol
Description: Thickening agent. Prepared by treating starch with propyleneoxide, epichlorhydrine and glycerol. The resulting starch is more stable against acid, alkaline and starch degrading enzymes. It also provides better colour and shine to products and is more stable after cooling.
Products: Many food products
Side effects: It may cause diarrhoea.
E1442 – Hydroxypropyl di-starch phosphate
Description: Thickening agent. Prepared by treating starch with propyleneoxide and phosphoric acid. The resulting starch is more stable against acid, alkaline and starch degrading enzymes. It also provides better colour and shine to products and has very good freeze-thaw properties.
Products: Many food products
Side effects: It may slow down the degradation of food in the intestine
E1450 – Starch sodium octenyl succinate
Description: Prepared by treating starch with octenylsuccinate. Thickening agent.
Products: Hardly used
Side effects: None known
1501 – Benzylated hydrocarbons
Description:Natural compounds, which constitute part of the flavour and fragrance of many plant species. They are commercially produced by chemical synthesis. Flavourings and fragrances.
Products: Many products; these compounds are also used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Side effects: None known when used in foods. Skin problems may occur when used in cosmetics.
1501(i): Benzyl alcohol
1501(ii): Benzyl acetate
1501(iii): Benzyl benzoate
1502 – Butane 1,3-diol
Description: It is commercially produced by chemical synthesis. Solvent for flavours.
Products: Tobacco products.
Side effects: None known when used in foods.
1,3-Butanediol is an organic chemical. It is commonly used as a solvent for food flavouring agents and is a co-monomer used in certain polyurethane and polyester resins. In biology, 1,3-butanediol is used as a hypoglycaemic agent.
1503 – Castor Oil
Description: Natural oil extracted from the seeds of Ricinus communis (castor bean) . Castor oil is a flavour component as well as a solvent for flavours.
Products: Flavoured sugar, lip products, etc.
Side effects: None known when used in foods.
Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained from the castor bean (technically castor seed as the castor plant, Ricinus communis, is not a member of the bean family). Castor oil (CAS number 8001-79-4) is a colorless to very pale yellow liquid with mild or no odor or taste. Its boiling point is 313 °C (595 °F) and its density is 961 kg·m-3. It is a triglyceride in which approximately ninety percent of fatty acid chains are ricinoleic acid. Oleic and linoleic acids are the other significant components.
1504 – Ethyl Acetate
Description: natural component of many fruits. It is commercially produced from acetic acid. Ethyl acetate is a flavour component as well as a solvent for flavours.
Products: Many products with fruit flavour.
Side effects: none known when used in foods.
Ethyl acetate (systematically, ethyl ethanoate, commonly abbreviated EA) is the organic compound with the formula CH3CH2OC(O)CH3. This colorless liquid has a characteristic, not unpleasant smell (similar to pear drops) like certain glues or nail polish removers, in which it is used. As the ester derived from ethanol and acetic acid, thus commonly abbreviated EtOAc, it is manufactured on a large scale for use as a solvent.
E1505 – Triethyl acetate
Description: part becomes alcohol in the body.
E1510 – Ethanol
Description: alcohol.
Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless chemical compound, and is best known as the alcohol found in thermometers and alcoholic beverages. In common usage, it is often referred to simply as alcohol. It is a straight-chain alcohol and its molecular formula is variously represented as EtOH, CH3CH2OH, C2H5OH or as its empirical formula C2H6O (which it shares with dimethyl ether).
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