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Food Category Details

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Fortified grape wine, grape liquor wine, and sweet grape wine (14.2.3.3)

Description:
Grape wines produced either by: (i) the fermentation of grape must (juice) of high sugar concentration; or (ii) by the blending of concentrated grape juice with wine; or (iii) the mixture of fermented must with alcohol. Examples include: grape dessert wine.1

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 14.2.3.3
INS No. Food Additive or Group Max Level Notes Defined In
150c Caramel III - ammonia caramel 50,000 mg/kg 14.2.3.3
150d Caramel IV - sulfite ammonia caramel 50,000 mg/kg 14.2.3.3
290 Carbon dioxide GMP 14.2.3
242 Dimethyl dicarbonate 200 mg/kg 14.2.3
1105 Lysozyme 500 mg/kg 14.2.3
SORBATES 200 mg/kg 14.2.3
SULFITES 350 mg/kg 14.2.3

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.


  1. Food Chemistry, H.-D. Belitz & W. Grosch, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1987, p. 669-679.

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