These natural food additives include natural colors and flavors that fall under sensory food additives and natural emulsifiers, starch and gelling agents/hydrocolloids that are used as textural additives to enhance the textural properties of food and beverages. Certain ingredients such as natural antioxidants perform dual roles—acting as a functional ingredient that helps curb cardiovascular, immunity, and skin disorders, and also as a shelf life extension food additive protecting products like oils, fats and meat against rancidity by arresting oxidation.