In recent years, The Sanlu toxic milk powder incident, Shuanghui Clenbuterol incident, Shanghai dyed steamed bread incident and other malignant food safety incidents have successively occurred in China.Along with it, food additives also become profit, illegal, harm, and even drugs synonym, was pushed onto the crest of the wave, triggered a wide range of social hot discussion, criticism and even criticism.As a value choice, food additives are not spontaneously produced, but the product of human society development to a certain stage.This historical implication not only exists in the food additive itself as an objective existence, but also exists in the food additive as a scientific and technological concept.More than that, this historical implication exists in the daily life and cultural history of human beings.

The history of food additives.As a scientific and technological concept, food additive has existed for only a few decades, but as an objective existence, it has a long historical connotation.According to experts, humans have been using food additives for more than 10,000 years. Salt is the earliest food additive used in human society worldwide. According to the available data, salt was first discovered by the Chinese. In Chinese, the word "salt" literally means "to boil brine in a vessel".

"Shuo Wen" on say: the natural person say bittern, boil those who call salt. Experts speculate that the Chinese learned to cook sea salt around the time between the Shennong (Yan Emperor) and the Yellow Emperor, which is as late as 5000 BC and 3000 BC. History of use of food additives. As the first nation to use food additives, the Chinese nation has made great contributions to the discovery and application of food additives. The Chinese nation first used salt, creating a history of application of food additives. More than 6,000 years ago, during the Dawenkou cultural period, invertase (sucrase) was discovered to make wine.