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Definition of E-number in English: E-numbernounˈiːnʌmbə British 1A code number preceded by the letter E, denoting food additives numbered in accordance with EU directives. Example sentencesExamples - Food campaigners have accused companies of deliberately misleading consumers, many of whom need to check labels for health reasons, by listing a mixture of additive names and E-numbers.
- Once an additive has been approved as safe across the European Union, it is assigned an E-number.
- The magazine concludes that additives are essential to provide safe, convenient food all year round but questions the need for E-number ingredients to make food more colourful.
- 1.1informal A food additive.
Example sentencesExamples - I don't know what ingredients they put in those suspiciously yellow, polystyrene-like slithers of E-numbers (well, there's certainly no potato in them, I'll bet), but they make tube travel almost unbearable.
- The E-numbers just temporarily addled my brain..
- There is nothing the six-year-old likes more now than to strut around the living room, cranked up on E-numbers after eating too many bags.
- Today I have eaten at least a pound of pure E-numbers.
- The crisps are hand-fried using the finest flavourings - we don't use E-numbers or artificial flavourings.
Synonyms added ingredient, addition, extra, add-on, supplement, accompaniment
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