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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:food preservative
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Accession:CHEBI:65255 term browser browse the term
Definition:Substances which are added to food in order to prevent decomposition caused by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes.
Synonyms:related_synonym: food preservatives



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    Path 1
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      CHEBI ontology 20849
        role 20820
          application 20622
            food additive 16992
              food preservative 12756
                antimicrobial food preservative + 12655
                calcium citrate 0
                carnosic acid 250
                food antioxidant + 1119
                sequestrant + 0
                sodium lactate 65
                sodium propionate 24
                sodium sulfite 11
    Path 2
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      CHEBI ontology 20849
        role 20820
          biological role 20805
            physiological role 20817
              food component 20817
                food additive 16992
                  food preservative 12756
                    antimicrobial food preservative + 12655
                    calcium citrate 0
                    carnosic acid 250
                    food antioxidant + 1119
                    sequestrant + 0
                    sodium lactate 65
                    sodium propionate 24
                    sodium sulfite 11
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