Glazing agent
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Glazing agents, or polishing agents, are food additives providing shiny appearance or protective coating to foods. Mostly they are based on waxes.
Examples are:
- Stearic acid (E570)
- Beeswax (E901)
- Candelilla wax (E902)
- Carnauba wax (E903, used to provide shiny appearance to chocolate and many other foods)
- Shellac (E904)
- Microcrystalline wax (E905c), Crystalline wax (E907)
- Lanolin (E913)
- Oxidized polyethylene wax (E914)
- Esters of colophonium (E915)
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