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E number

noun — 2 senses

E number

noun
1

Any of a range of European abbreviations for food additives used on labels.

  • The E number E100 represents turmeric.
2

Ireland, UK, Informal Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable.

  • I finger Padre Pio paperweights and Our Lady of Knock sticks of rock that are packed with more e-numbers than could be safe at one sitting.2003, Deirdre Brennan, Maighread Medbh, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Divas!:
  • ...how long it took corpses to go off these days, because everyone was so full of E-numbers and preservatives.2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering:

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