Testing for E-Numbers

E-Numbers are a coding system used to identify food additives.

Most convenience foods and many other foods contain one or more E-numbers. Research shows many people are sensitive to a number of these.

Our E-Number test is based on more than 50 of the most common and most harmful e-numbers, and identification of reactions can be extremely helpful in finding out which ones to avoid when purchasing foodstuffs.

For details on the test procedure, please see here.

Note: The E-number test is suitable for children - for more detail please see here.

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ADDITIVES TESTED FOR THAT HAVE KNOWN ALLERGIC EFFECTS

CODE	DESCRIPTION
E102	Tartrazine: yellow food colouring.
E104	Quinoline: yellow colouring used in food stuff and medicines.
E110	Sunset Yellow: orange yellow, widely used in food stuff and medicines.
E120	Cochineal: carminic acid, carmines, natural red 4.
E122	Carmoisine Azorubine: found in some biscuits, jelly, sweets and ready meals.
E123	Armaranth: red colouring, found in cakes mixes, fruit flavoured fillings, jelly crystals, wine and spirits.
E124	Ponceau 4R: found in sweets, biscuits and drinks.
E127	Erythrosine Red 3: glace cherries, canned fruit, custard mix, sweets and snack foods.
E128	Red 2G: banned in some countries.
E132	Indigo Carmine: indigotine blue 2, ice cream, sweets, baked goods, confectionery and biscuits.
E133	Brilliant Blue: – dairy products, sweets and drinks.
E150	Caramel: food colouring.
E151	Black PN & Brilliant black BN: brown sauce, blackcurrant cake mix, widely used in drinks, wine and cheese.
E154	Brown FK: kipper brown.
E155	Brown HT, Chocolate Brown HT: used in chocolate cake mixes.
E163	Anthocyanins: colouring.
E173	Aluminium: to clear tap water and as a food colour.
E174	Silver: colouring.
E175	Gold: colouring.
E180	Pigment Rubine, Lithol Rubine BK: colouring, used as a dye for cheese rind..
E210	Benzoid Acid: preservative, preservative in baked goods, cheeses, gum, and ice cream relishes, soft sweets and cordials..
E216	Propyl Para-Hydroxybezoate: preservative in pates cereals, snacks and meat products.
E220	Sulphur Dioxide: preservative.
E250	Sodium Nitrate: preservative - Meat and fish products.
E251	Sodium Nitrite: preservative, Cheese, meat and meat products, pizza, etc.
E270	Lactic Acid: preservative, acid, antioxidant.
E280	Propionic Acid: preservative, used in bread and bakery products.
E310	Propyl Gallate: antioxidant.
E311	Octyl Gallate: antioxidant, Oils and fats, margarine, etc.
E312	Dodecyl Gallate: antioxidant, Oils and fats, margarine, etc.
E320	BH A – Butylated Hydroxyanisole: antioxidant, used in confectionary and meats.
E321	BHT – Butylated Hydroxytoluene: antioxidant.
E405	Propylene Glycol Alginate: thickener, stabiliser, emulsifier, Ice cream, confectionery, dressings, etc.
E420	Sorbitol: emulsifier, sweetener, moistening agent.
E421	Mannitol: anti-caking agent, sweetener, found in n added sugar products.
E432	Polysorbates: emulsifier.
E452	Polyphosphates: emulsifier.
E465	Ethyl Methyl Cellulose: emulsifier, used to increase water absorption in food.
E479	Thermo-Ox-Soya Oil: emulsifier, bakery products.
E491	Sorbitan Monostearate: emulsifier.
E621	Monosodium Glutamate: flavour enhancer.
E627	Disodium Guanylate, Sodium Guanylate, flavour enhancer.
E631	Disodium Inosinate: flavour enhancer.
E634	Calcium 5 –Ribonucleotide: flavour enhancer.
E950	Acesulfame K:, sweetener, used for baked goods, frozen desserts, candies, dairy products, confectionery, pharmaceuticals, oral hygiene, and, most recently, beverages.
E951	Aspartame: sweetener, used in drinks, sweets, snacks, alcohol desserts and diet foods.
E1410	Monostarch Phosphate: stabiliser, thickening agent, many food products, pharmaceuticals.
E1505	Trithyl Citrate: foam stabiliser.
E1518	Glyceryl Triacetate (Triacetin): moistening agent.