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Question

Well, its for a project.......

I really need the following answers if anyone is will to help

Is sodium a preservative?

Is cracker meal a preservative?

Is Fructose Corn Syrup a preservative?

And....how does our body use (if it does) Cracker Meal and Fructose Corn Syrup

PLEASE HELP

Answer 1

NaCl is a preservative in high enough concentrations. In most foods it does not function as a preservative, but merely a flavor or flavor enhancer. At those concentrations, it does not exhibit any preservative properties.

Cracker meal is basicly ground up crackers. It thickens products and it adds some flavor. It is not a preservative.

High Fructose Corn syrup is not a preservative. It is a sweetener composed of glucose (dextrose) and fructose. It is derived from corm starch. Corn starch is composed entirely of glucose units, but enzymes convert much of the glucose into fructose. Commercially available high fructose corn syrup contains (on a dry solids basis) 42%, 55% or 90% fructose, with the balance being glucose and small amount of higher di-(or higher)saccharides.

Cracker meal is largely wheat flour and is converted to glucose as a first step in the body. High fructose corn syrup is used by the body much like any natural sweetener. Sucrose (table sugar) breaks down rapidy in the body to glucose and fructose, the same components as high fructose corn syrup.

Answer 2

Yea sodium preserves food because it keeps everything in the food from spoiling.

Answer 3

sodium is a preservative, it was used by hunter gather societies before smoking and refrigeration were invented

I doubt cracker meal is a preservative, it would grow mold quite fast,

fructose corn syrup: does not metabolize as a normal sugar in the body and it prevents a certain hormone, leptin, from reaching

the brain. This hormone normally sends a signal to the brain that your stomach is full and tells you to stop

eating but, whenever you eat anything with high fructose corn syrup, your brain thinks it’s not full, and so you

keep eating and eating and eating

Answer 4

Sodium is a key ingredient in lots of perservatives such as sodium benzoate and salt is even a perservative. im not sure about cracker meal but high fructose corn syrup is. and the reason corn syrup is so bad is because most scientists think that your body readily convert it to fat.