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| Food-Info.net> Ingredients Guide > Letter P Ingredients guide : What is in our food ?Welcome to the ingredient guide and food glossary of Food-Info.net. With this guide we would like to list all ingredients used in foods, to state their use and/or origin as well as the suitability for certain allergies, intolerances or religious groups. Whenever there is additional information available of Food-Info the appropriate link will be provided. Not only ingredients will be listed on this list, but also other components that may be naturally present in foods, as well as general words that can be found on a food product label. This list was started on February 28, 2008 and will be continuously updated. If you miss an ingredient or component in this list, please let us know and we will add the list. For the E-numbers (additives) see the E-number section of the site (see menu above). All the E-numbers are listed in the tables below with their chemical/common name, but not listed under their E-number. Whenever known we will add suitability of the ingredient for the most common allergies, intolerances or similar (nutritional) disorders. These data are an indication of use only, it is always possible that individual people react differently !
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| Ingredient/Component | Description | Suitability (indication) |
| Palmitoyl-L-ascorbic acid | A fat soluble form of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and used as an antioxidant. See E304 | |
| Pantothenic acid |
See Vitamin B5 |
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| Paraffine, Vaseline | See the E-number list: 905 | |
| Patent Blue V | A synthetic blue colour, see E131 | |
| Pectin | See the E-number list: E440 | |
| Phosphatylated di-starch phosphate | A modified starch and thickening agent, see E1413 | |
| Phosphoric acid | See the E-number list: E338 | |
| Pigweed | See amaranth grain | |
| Pimaracin | See the E-number list: E235 | |
| Polydextrose | See the E-number list: E1200 | |
| Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids | See the E-number list: E475 | |
| Polyglycerol polyricinoleate | See the E-number list: E476 | |
| Polyoxyethylene (40) stearate | See the E-number list: E431 | |
| Polyoxyethylene(8) stearate | See the E-number list: 430 | |
| Polyoxyethylene-20-sorbitan monolaurate | See the E-number list: E432 | |
| Polyoxyethylene-20-sorbitan mono-oleate | See the E-number list: E433 | |
| Polyoxyethylene-20-sorbitan monopalmitate | See the E-number list: E434 | |
| Polyoxyethylene-20-sorbitan monostearate | See the E-number list: E435 | |
| Polyoxyethylene-20-sorbitan tristearate | See the E-number list: E436 | |
| Polyphosphates | See the E-number list: E452 | |
| Polysaccharide | Also known as large or complex sugars. The longest class of the carbohydrates. Consist of hundreds to several thousand monosaccharide units. Some consist of one type of monosaccharide only (starch), others are very complex (pectin). Many are used as thickening agents and are dietary fibres. Some are soluble, others are not, most have no taste. | |
| Polyvinylpyrrolidon | See the E-number list: E1201 | |
| Ponceau 4R | See the E-number list: E124 | |
| Potassium acetate | See the E-number list: E261 | |
| Potassium adipate | See the E-number list: E357 | |
| Potassium alginate | A thickening agent, see alginic acid | |
| Potassium benzoate / Benzoic acid potassium salt | See the E-number list: E212 | |
| Potassium bromates (invalid number) | See the E-number list: 924 | |
| Potassium carbonate | See the E-number list: E501 | |
| Potassium citrates | See the E-number list: E332 | |
| Potassium chloride | See the E-number list: E508 | |
| Potassium ferrocyanide | See the E-number list: E536 | |
| Potassium gluconate | See the E-number list: E577 | |
| Potassium hydrogen sulphite | See the E-number list: E228 | |
| Potassium hydroxide | See the E-number list: E525 | |
| Potassium lactate | See the E-number list: E326 | |
| Potassium malate | See the E-number list: E351 | |
| Potassium metabisulphite | See the E-number list: E224 | |
| Potassium nitrate | See the E-number list: E252 | |
| Potassium nitrite | See the E-number list: E249 | |
| Potassium orthophosphates | See the E-number list: E340 | |
| Potassium persulphate | See the E-number list: 922 | |
| Potassium propionate | See the E-number list: E283 | |
| Potassium sodium L-(+)- tartrate | See the E-number list: E337 | |
| Potassium sorbate | See the E-number list: E202 | |
| Potassium sulphate | See the E-number list: E515 | |
| Potassium sulphite | See the E-number list: 225 | |
| Potato starch |
See starch. |
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| Preservative | Preservatives are a class of additives used to prevent microbial spoilage of a product. The most widely used preservatives are salt, sugar and several acids, such as acetic (E260), lactic (E270), benzoic (E210) and sorbic acid (E200). As it is a class of additives, the individual products should be labelled by name and/or E-number. | |
| Propane | See the E-number list: E944 | |
| Propane-1, 2-diol alginate | See the E-number list: E405 | |
| Propionic acid | See the E-number list: E280 | |
| Propyl 4-hydrobenzoate | See the E-number list: E216 | |
| Propyl gallate | See the E-number list: E310 | |
| Propylene glycol | See the E-number list: 1520 | |
| Propylene glycol | See the E-number list: 490 | |
| Propyleneglycol esters of fatty acids | See the E-number list: E477 | |
| Pyridoxin |
See Vitamin B6 |
