additives

It's treated with additives, flavourings, and sugar to make it both palatable and consistent: the grape is but a substrate.

It means edible food products without additives or artificial preservatives.

Typically, gas stations which sell Diesel fuel put in anti-gelling additives that vary with the time of year.

Instant ramen is potentially rather different from freshly prepared ramen though, eg in terms of salt content, additives etc.

That's OK, seeing that not selling food at all is not an option, whereas not selling food with additives is.

Even single-malt Scotch, otherwise quite strictly regulated, permits artificial color additive E150 (but no other additives).

The comparison I've heard is that a regularly smoking 1 joint a day is roughly equivalent to smoking 1 self-rolled cigarette using tobacco grown without additives.

In general, organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or synthetic food additives.

In comparison, the only benefit from chemical food additives is usually saving a few bucks.

The corn syrup with additives is an attempt to buttress any dietary deficiencies.

However, I think this works as a reasonable shorthand for non-specific synthetic food additives in this context.

A lot of additives and preservatives those are used to squeeze extra profit margins -- while keeping prices the same or even raising them.

Aspartame is "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the [FDA] has ever approved"[0].