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A very common food preservative, besides salt and sugar, is sodium:
AChloride
BSulphate
CNitrates
DBenzoate
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Benzoate
1. One named salt of an acid is widely used.
2. It is written as a sodium salt of benzoic acid.
3. That preservative is sodium benzoate.
_Source: syllabus Chemistry Part II, Class XII, Chemistry in Everyday Life._
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