A Conversation for E-numbers: the classification of food additives
classification of foods
flyingtwinkle Started conversation Nov 11, 2004
that is a very scientific way to put different foods in proper categories
classification of foods
Pimms Posted Nov 11, 2004
I'm not sure I'd agree 
For one thing this is talking about 'additives' which, by their definition, are not considered foods.
Mostly though, having tried to sort the groups of additives by function, I'd disagree that it was done 'scientifically'. It has a tempting but illusory comparison with Mendeleev's Periodic table - there is nothing about the numbered additives that puts them in a certain order.
It has more in common with Library classification systems - there is no 'right' way to order them, just ways to systematically group things that makes some sense. Even this is a poor analogy, as the number an additive has been assigned (after the first large and, I guess, original groupings) seems somewhat ad hoc.
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