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Unit 1 Food Quality Part Ⅰ View, Listen and Speak Task One: Food Additives (1) Food additives are widely used in many countries. However, the discovery a number of years ago that the food additive Sudan Red was harmful to human health led to a backlash against all food additives. For example, the milk we drink in the morning has calcium added to it; numerous beverages contain calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and other minerals; store bought salt contains iodine, zinc and silica; and potato chips have as many as 10 types of food additives, such as spices, edible pigments, citric acid, flavor additives, sweetening agents and silica. MSG and condiments are considered food additives. Yeast powder is also a food additive too and is usually added to steamed breads. Even sodium carbonate is a food additive, too, and is often added to make congee. To better understand the functions of food additives, Nature Science did two interesting experiments at a bakery. Flour, eggs, sugar, salt and soda are the basic materials used in baking cakes. First, let’s make a cake without any additives. Mixing egg yolks and whites evenly, we then add some sugar into it. When the egg and sugar are (done) being mixed, we immediately add flour, water, soda and bulking agents into the mixture and rapidly mix them to make the batter. All this must be done within 10 to 30 seconds after which the batter must be immediately placed into the oven to bake. Now, let’s make some cakes with additives. When the eggs and sugar are being mixed, we add some cake oil to the mixture. The cake oil is composed of acidity regulators, antioxidants, vitamin C and sodium bicarbonate. It can make the egg-sugar mixture rapidly inflate. After flour, water and soda are poured into the egg-sugar mixture, the cake oil can form compound membranes with proteins in the cake batter. This can significantly improve the strength and stability of bubbles in the ba