food additive

1. 1.

   an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life

   Synonymsartificial additive

   Broaderadditive

Questions about food additive

What does food additive mean?

food additive means "an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life".

What is another word for food additive?

Close synonyms include artificial additive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is food additive a common word?

food additive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.