Category: I
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Ingredient list
The listing on a food label of each ingredient in descending order of prominence by weight. The ingredient list is placed on the same label as the name and address of the manufacturer, packer or distributor.
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Information panel labeling
This refers to the label statements that are generally required to be placed together, without any intervening material, on the information panel, if such labeling does not appear on the PDP. These label statements include: the name and address of the manufacturer, packer or distributor [street address (if the name and address are not listed…
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Information panel
The label panel immediately to the right of the Principle Display Panel (PDP), as displayed to the consumer.
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Indigestible
Food that is not readily digested.
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Indirect heating
A means of heating a product in which the product and heating medium are physically separate.
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Independent variable
A variable which on the basis of a previously established relationship with a dependent variable, may be used for the solution of specific values of the dependent variable. In epidemiology, a characteristic being considered or tested for its relationship to a health condition. In epidemiology and research, the agent that incites a response; the stimulus…
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Imitation
A product that resembles a traditional food and is a suitable substitute for the traditional food; must be labeled if the new food contains less protein or a lesser amount of any essential vitamin or mineral. Not the real thing and nutritionally inferior than the food it is imitating, substitute. A term used in food…
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Icings (Frostings)
A preparation made with sugar, egg whites and colorings for covering cakes. A technique of cutaneous stimulation using cold agents (12°-17°C) to evoke or facilitate reflex muscular responses in patients with central nervous system dysfunction.
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Ice
Frozen mixture of sugar or sugar syrup, fruit puree or flavoring and water. The word ice derives from a Germanic source that also evolved into the German eis, the Danish is, and the Dutch ijs, all meaning ice. In Old English, the word was spelt is, a form that persisted until the fourteenth century when…
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Inanition
Exhaustion and wasting due to complete lack or non-assimilation of food; a state of starvation. The result of starvation. A state of exhaustion caused by starvation. Condition of exhaustion and weakness caused by inadequate nutrition, resulting from malnutrition, starvation, or disease. A condition of exhaustion caused by lack of nutrients in the blood. This may…