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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Flavour Enhancers 520<br />

NAME: Licorice<br />

CATEGORY: Flavour enhancer<br />

FOOD USE: Baked goods/ Alcoholic beverages/ Non-alcoholic beverages/ Chewing gum/ Hard candy/ Herbs/<br />

Seasonings/ Plant protein products/ Soft candy/ Vitamin and mineral supplements<br />

SYNONYMS: Glycyrrhiza/ Liquorice/ Licorice root<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Dried rhizome and roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Natural flavouring agent; flavour enhancer; surface-active agent<br />

ALTERNATIVES: Ammoniated glycyrrhizin; licorice root extract; licorice extract; thaumatin<br />

LEGISLATION: USA: AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC RIM:<br />

FDA 21CFR 184.1408: approved for use in foods as flavour Japan: approved for use as natural<br />

enhancer, flavouring agent, surface active agent at GRAS flavouring<br />

quantities.<br />

Limitation for use at levels of 0.05–16%<br />

Limitations of 0.05% (baked goods), 0.1% (alcoholic<br />

beverages), 0.15% (non-alcoholic) beverages),<br />

1.1% (chewing gum), 16% (hard candy),<br />

0.15% (vitamin/mineral supplements), 0.1% (other foods)<br />

Not permitted as non-nutritive sweetener in sugar substitutes<br />

REFERENCE: Lewis, R. J., Sr. (1989) <strong>Food</strong> Additives Hand<strong>book</strong>. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

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