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Food additive, an Uncommon card
Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance taste, appearance, or other sensory qualities.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Food additive quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Food additive card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This allows for longer-lasting foods, such as bacon, ______, and wines.
Answer
sweets. This allows for longer-lasting foods, such as bacon, sweets, and wines. From the Food additive article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
George Bailey. George Bailey 71 · Food additive 65 · Cardboard box 61 · Griddle 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Some additives, such as vinegar, salt, smoke and sugar, have been used for centuries to preserve food.
- This allows for longer-lasting foods, such as bacon, sweets, and wines.
- With the advent of ultra-processed foods in the late 20th century, many additives having both natural and artificial origin were introduced.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Food additive article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Food additive
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Food additive (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Helge Höpfner, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
