Bob Evans Potato Salad

Refrigerated product

Ingredients: Potatoes, Salad dressing (water, soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, modified food starch, egg yolks, corn syrup, salt spice, xanthan gum), celery, pickle relish (cucumbers, corn syrup, vinegar, salt, alum, sodium benzoate, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavors, polysorbate 80, sugar, red peppers, onions, mustard seed, salt, tumeric, spices, oleoresin paprika), water, salt, spices, lesss than 0.1% potassium sorbate, food color (water, propyleneglycol, Yellow #5, red#40, propylparaben), calciumdisodium EDTA, citric acid.

Why do we have parabens in this product?

What is the function of propylene glycol?

What type of modified starch is used? Why?

Do we need sodium benzoate in potato salad?

What is alum? What does it do?

What is the function of polysorbate 80?