Defined terms — Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (Text with EEA relevance)
European Union · 32008R1333 · 561 provisions
8 defined in this instrument.
energy-reduced food — a food with an energy value reduced by at least 30 % compared with the original food or a similar product (f)
food additive — any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods;
The following are not considered to be food additives:
monosaccharides, disaccharides or oligosaccharides and foods containing these substances used for their sweetening properties;
foods, whether dried or in concentrated form, including flavourings incorporated during the manufacturing of compound foods, because of their aromatic, sapid or nutritive properties together with a secondary colouring effect;
substances used in covering or coating materials, which do not form part of foods and are not intended to be consumed together with those foods;
products containing pectin and derived from dried apple pomace or peel of citrus fruits or quinces, or from a mixture of them, by the action of dilute acid followed by partial… (a)
food with no added sugars — a food without the following:
any added monosaccharides or disaccharides;
any added food containing monosaccharides or disaccharides which is used for its sweetening properties (e)
functional class — one of the categories set out in Annex I based on the technological function a food additive exerts in the foodstuff (c)
processing aid — any substance which:
is not consumed as a food by itself;
is intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or their ingredients, to fulfil a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing; and
may result in the unintentional but technically unavoidable presence in the final product of residues of the substance or its derivatives provided they do not present any health risk and do not have any technological effect on the final product (b)
quantum satis — that no maximum numerical level is specified and substances shall be used in accordance with good manufacturing practice, at a level not higher than is necessary to achieve the intended purpose and provided the consumer is not misled (h)
table-top sweeteners — preparations of permitted sweeteners, which may contain other food additives and/or food ingredients and which are intended for sale to the final consumer as a substitute for sugars (g)
unprocessed food — a food which has not undergone any treatment resulting in a substantial change in the original state of the food, for which purpose the following in particular are not regarded as resulting in substantial change: dividing, parting, severing, boning, mincing, skinning, paring, peeling, grinding, cutting, cleaning, trimming, deep-freezing, freezing, chilling, milling, husking, packing or unpacking (d)