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- Saccharin - artificial sweetener
- Safflower oil - a flavorless and colorless cooking oil.
- Safflower -
- Saffron - color
- Saigon Cinnamon -
- Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor or Poterium sanguisorba)
- Salt -
- Sandalwood - color
- Savory (Satureja hortensis, S. montana)
- Scarlet GN - color
- Sesame oil - used as a cooking oil, and as a massage oil, particularly in India.
- Sesame seed -
- Shellac - glazing agent
- Silicon dioxide - anti-caking agent
- Silver - color (silver)
- Luohanguo
- Sodium acetate - preservative, acidity regulator
- Sodium adipate - food acid
- Sodium alginate - thickener, vegetable gum, stabilizer, gelling agent, emulsifier
- Sodium aluminium phosphate - acidity regulator, emulsifier
- Sodium aluminosilicate (sodium aluminium silicate) - anti-caking agent
- Sodium ascorbate - antioxidant (water soluble)
- Sodium benzoate - preservative
- Sodium bicarbonate - mineral salt
- Sodium bisulfite (sodium hydrogen sulfite) - preservative, antioxidant
- Sodium carbonate - mineral salt
- Sodium carboxymethylcellulose - emulsifier
- Sodium citrates - food acid
- Sodium dehydroacetate - preservative
- Sodium erythorbate - antioxidant
- Sodium erythorbin - antioxidant
- Sodium ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
- Sodium ferrocyanide - anti-caking agent
- Sodium formate - preservative
- Sodium fumarate - food acid
- Sodium gluconate - stabiliser
- Sodium hydrogen acetate - preservative, acidity regulator
- Sodium hydroxide - mineral salt
- Sodium lactate - food acid
- Sodium malates - food acid
- Sodium metabisulfite - preservative, antioxidant, bleaching agent
- Sodium methyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
- Sodium nitrate - preservative, color fixative
- Sodium nitrite - preservative, color fixative
- Sodium orthophenyl phenol - preservative
- Sodium propionate - preservative
- Sodium propyl para-hydroxybenzoate - preservative
- Sodium sorbate - preservative
- Sodium stearoyl lactylate - emulsifier
- Sodium succinates - acidity regulator, flavor enhancer
- Sodium salts of fatty acids - emulsifier, stabiliser, anti-caking agent
- Sodium sulfite - mineral salt, preservative, antioxidant
- Sodium sulfite - preservative, antioxidant
- Sodium tartrates - food acid
- Sodium tetraborate - preservative
- Sorbic acid - preservative
- Sorbitan monolaurate - emulsifier
- Sorbitan monooleate - emulsifier
- Sorbitan monopalmitate - emulsifier
- Sorbitan monostearate - emulsifier
- Sorbitan tristearate - emulsifier
- Sorbitol - humectant, emulsifier, sweetener
- Sorbol -
- Sorrel (Rumex spp.) -
- Soybean oil - accounts for about half of worldwide edible oil production.
- Spearmint oil - often used in flavoring mouthwash and chewing gum, among other applications.
- Star anise -
- Star anise oil - highly fragrant oil using in cooking. Also used in perfumery and soaps, has been used in toothpastes, mouthwashes, and skin creams. 90% of the world's star anise crop is used in the manufacture of Tamiflu, a drug used to treat avian flu.
- Starch sodium octenylsuccinate - thickener, vegetable gum
- Stearic acid - anti-caking agent
- Stearyl tartarate - emulsifier
- Succinic acid - food acid
- Sucralose - artificial sweetener
- Sucroglycerides - emulsifier
- Sucrose acetate isobutyrate - emulsifier, stabiliser
- Sucrose esters of fatty acids - emulsifier
- Sugar -
- Sulfur dioxide - preservative, antioxidant
- Sulfuric acid - acidity regulator
- Sumac -
- Sunflower oil - a common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel.
- Sunset Yellow FCF - color (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #6)
- Sweet basil -
- Sweet woodruff -
- Szechuan pepper (Xanthoxylum piperitum) -
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