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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 humectant
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Accession:CHEBI:77969 term browser browse the term
Definition:A humectant that is used as a food additive to prevent foodstuffs from drying out.
Synonyms:related_synonym: food humectants



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  CHEBI ontology 5081
    role 5046
      application 876
        food additive 143
          food humectant 0
            D-glucitol + 0
            D-mannitol + 0
            potassium bitartrate 0
            triacetin 0
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  CHEBI ontology 5081
    role 5046
      biological role 5046
        physiological role 5043
          food component 5043
            food additive 143
              food humectant 0
                D-glucitol + 0
                D-mannitol + 0
                potassium bitartrate 0
                triacetin 0
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