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Sodium erythorbate (E316)

E316 is in the E300s, the range used for antioxidants and acidity regulators. Here’s what it goes by on a label, and what regulators and scientists have said about it.

Sources checked September 26, 2026

Names on a label

Labels outside Europe often print the number on its own, without the E.

What it’s used for

The FDA lists these uses in food: antimicrobial agent; antioxidant; color or coloring adjunct; dough strengthener; flour treating agent; oxidizing or reducing agent; processing aid; surface-finishing agent.1

What regulators and scientists say

An acceptable daily intake is, in EFSA’s words, “an estimate of the amount of a substance in food or drinking water that can be consumed daily over a lifetime without presenting an appreciable risk to health.”3

Sources

  1. US Food and Drug Administration. Substances Added to Food inventory.
  2. EFSA. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of erythorbic acid (E 315) and sodium erythorbate (E 316) as food additives, 2015.
  3. European Food Safety Authority. Glossary: acceptable daily intake.

Records as held by Revely on September 26, 2026. Each links to its source.