Potassium sorbate is a chemical additive. It’s widely used as a preservative in foods, drinks, and personal care products. It is an odorless and tasteless salt synthetically produced from sorbic acid ...

Potassium sorbate is a preservative used in different packaged foods to help prevent spoilage by microorganisms — namely fungi, such as yeast or mold — and certain bacteria. “Potassium sorbate is used ...

Q: I am allergic to potassium sorbate and get hives and diarrhea from it. It seems to be harder and harder to find foods without it. It's in candy now, too, and cake mix. Why the change from natural ...

For those aspiring to eat mainly “clean ingredients,” a little chemistry knowledge is often useful for deciphering packaged food labels. Late last year the maker of Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn was ...