Dictionary of Food Ingredients (5th edition)

To have reached a fifth edition this is clearly a successful book, although this is the first time I have come across it. I had been using E for Additives (Hanssen, 1987), but as that was last revised (as far as I can tell) in 1987 Dictionary of Food Ingredients will be a useful replacement. It is wider in coverage, and does have a list of E numbers at the end following a US list of food additives covered under federal regulations. Just over a half of the book is given over to the dictionary listings. These range...