In everyday life, whether you buy drinks or snacks carefully selected, they contain food additives. Sodium hexametaphosphate in food additives improves the quality of food and prolongs its shelf life, while condiments such as salt, soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sugar, anise, pepper and mustard are used everyday, which is different from food additives. 

Seasonings are divided into traditional seasonings and new compound seasonings. Compound condiment is a kind of condiment which can give special flavor or condiment to food and dishes through special flavor design and industrial scale production. Food condiments include salts, sours, sweeteners, flavors and spices, such as salt, soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sugar, anise, pepper, mustard and so on.

Food additives refer to a kind of chemical synthesis or natural substances used to improve food quality, prolong the shelf life of food, facilitate food processing and increase the nutritional components of food. Including acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, defoamer, antioxidant, bleaching agent and so on.

The ingredients of food additives are clearly labeled with specific chemical components. Food-grade phosphate is a huge family. There are about 18 kinds of phosphate in GB2760, including sodium pyrophosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate and so on.

Commonly used food grade sodium hexametaphosphate specific composition indicators are clearly marked, is not easy to maintain moisture loss in meat products, moisturizing effect, is a commonly used water retaining agent. Generally 0.3-0.5%, 0.9% in cheese, 0.3% in meat, 0.5% in milk powder, butter powder, frozen fish and shrimp, and 0.2% in condensed milk and beverage.

It should be noted that food grade sodium hexametaphosphate is an additive, not a condiment, and must be used within the prescribed dosage range.