Empower Customers to Make Informed Food Choices

The International Food Additives Council (IFAC) is dedicated to equipping you with the tools and insights necessary to meet the needs of your customers – including informing consumers on the benefits and safety of food ingredients and additives. Whether it’s decoding ingredient labels or better understanding the value of food ingredients, IFAC has developed the following resources to empower consumer’s shopping experiences.

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Resources 

How Can You Provide Your Customers with Food Knowledge?

Be An Informed Consumer

Stay informed by understanding some common misconceptions about food labeling.

Types of Food Ingredients

Explore how food ingredients and additives play a crucial role in enhancing the taste, texture, freshness, and appearance of food

Empower Consumers with Helpful Shopping Tips

Decoding Food Labels

Education about food labels is the simplest way to understand the contents of food.

Tips to Reduce Trips to the Grocery Store: How to Save Time & Money

Reduce grocery store trips, save time and money, and cut down on food waste with these tips.

How Do Food Ingredients Support Sustainability?

How Food Ingredients Fit Into A Plant-based Diet

Food ingredients not only contribute to taste and texture of many foods, they also enhance many plant-based foods.

Food Additives: Supporting Food Affordability

Food additives play crucial roles in the production, distribution, storage, and availability of food and beverage products, including enhancing shelf-life, which also positively impacts cost and convenience

How Food Ingredients Make A More Sustainable Future

Each year, around one-third of the global food supply is wasted. Food ingredients help preserve this supply through preservation, enhance nutritional quality and many other ways.

How Can You Address Customers’ Questions on Ultra-Processed Foods and Food Additives?

Get the Fast Facts on Ultra-Processed Foods

Foods are processed for several reasons including to prevent spoilage, ensure food safety, maintain or enhance taste and flavor, improve nutritional value, and many other reasons.

Trust the Process-es: Understanding the Truth About Processed Foods

Processed foods are those that have been altered from their natural state. Learn more about the various ways foods are processed by manufacturers and even in your own home

Why Do We Need Food Additives?

A food additive is any substance added to preserve, maintain, or enhance a food’s safety, freshness, taste, texture, and appearance. Explore the many benefits and needs for additives.