Coating agents

Coating agents are food additives that protect food from loss of smell, taste and moisture, promote shine or lengthen freshness or also act as release agents .

For example, natural waxes or montanic acid esters are used as a coating for fruit to prevent drying out and loss of flavor.

So-called cheese coating agents are used to coat cheeses with an artificial rind .

Approved additives

• Beeswax (E 901)
• Candelilla wax (E 902)
• Carnauba wax (E 903)
• Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids ( E 570 )
• Cellulose
  • Carboxymethyl cellulose (E 466)
  • Hydroxypropyl cellulose ( E 463 )
  • Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (E 464)
  • Methyl cellulose (E 461)
  • Methyl ethyl cellulose ( E 465 )
• Polyvinyl polypyrrolidone ( E 1202 )
• Polyvinylpyrrolidone (E 1201)
• Shellac (E 904)

Individual evidence

1. ^ W. Baltes: Food chemistry . 6th edition. Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-38183-9 , pp. 204 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-38183-9 .