E number (food additive)
ID e_number
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Code of a food additive approved in the European Union: the letter E and three or four digits, sometimes with a letter or a roman numeral for a subclass, such as E330 for citric acid.
- Categories
- Chemistry, Industry
- Countries
- European Union
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Wikidata
- P628
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^E\d{3,4}[a-z]?(?:\([ivx]+\))?$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| E307a | RRR-alpha-tocopherol |
| E621 | monosodium L-glutamate |
| E100 | curcumin |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P628
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/e_number - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/EU/chemistry/e_number.yamlon GitHub