preservative

Example Sentences

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Both shoppers say they prefer to buy foods that are preservative free when possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

However, direct evidence linking preservative intake to type 2 diabetes in large human populations has been limited until now.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

In their analysis, Inserm researchers divided preservative additives into two main groups.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2026

Thimerosol is a preservative previously used in vaccines that long has been a target of anti-vaccine activists who asserted that it caused autism in children given the shots; that claim has been decisively debunked.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

Entomology smells like mothballs and oil: a preservative that, Dr. Geffard explains, is called naphthalene.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr