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- noun chemistry An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, a flour bleaching agent and improving agent and in foaming plastics.
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Examples
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Once the chemistry of this change was understood, millers began using bleaching agents azodicarbonamide, peroxide to whiten flours.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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However, worries about the potential toxicity of bromate residues in the late 1980s led most millers to replace bromate with ascorbic acid vitamin C or azodicarbonamide.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Once the chemistry of this change was understood, millers began using bleaching agents azodicarbonamide, peroxide to whiten flours.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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However, worries about the potential toxicity of bromate residues in the late 1980s led most millers to replace bromate with ascorbic acid vitamin C or azodicarbonamide.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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On the McDonald's website over a dozen ingredients are listed for a Big Mac bun including azodicarbonamide.
Later On LeisureGuy 2010
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I suspect they are talking about the four lines of chemical-sounding ingredients on the label that are categorized under "dough conditioners" - one of which is something called azodicarbonamide.
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on an azodicarbonamide sesame-seed bun!)
Later On LeisureGuy 2010
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