Consumers’ knowledge and attitudes about food additives in the UAE

• Tareq M. Osaili ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tosaili@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6166-1388

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• Reyad S. Obaid,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Sanaa A. I. Alkayyali,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Hind Ayman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Sara M. Bunni,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Shaema B. Alkhaled,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Fayeza Hasan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Food Science, College of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), United Arab Emirates

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• Maysm N. Mohamad,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-6625

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• Leila Cheikh Ismail

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, The University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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