Please recommend a reference/book describing food additive functions

hi everyone, I'm not a spec write by trade, but am getting tasked with writing spec's. Could anyone recommend a decent reference book that may help?

Kind Regards,

what are you writing specs for?

Hi stevie,

Title was chopped due too long.

You need to detail yr requirement in the Post.

Hi Charles, I'm after  a good reference book for establishing the functions of additives in recipes, and also if there's anything around identifying compound ingredients? Have you come across anything?

I have a Spec tech starting soon which is going to help, Its just to help me with my knowledge.

Hi Charles, I'm after  a good reference book for establishing the functions of additives in recipes, and also if there's anything around identifying compound ingredients? Have you come across anything?

 

I have a Spec tech starting soon which is going to help, Its just to help me with my knowledge.

It's an enormous topic of course.

This book has (a) a list of additive functional classes vs short description of application, (b) a Table of alphabetically listed additives (chemical name) vs Function -

Handbook of Nutrition and Food ed. Berdanier (Pg 17 et seq)

This is more general text -

Guidance on Food Additives Report 2010.pdf   405.49KB   14 downloads

What commodity are you speaking too?  There are a lot of experts in their field here who can assist as well as the book Charles has listed

Cheers Charles, much appreciated.