Alpha-amylase (E1100): What the Sources Found

Alpha-amylase is the additive the food industry lists as E1100. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
2 citations from Law, FDA, each one below.

What Alpha-amylase does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Alpha-amylase takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

Law Regulation (EC) No 1332/2008 on food enzymes; European Commission 'EU rules — Enzymes' (food.ec.europa.eu)
Food enzymes are regulated separately from additives; the additive authorisations for enzymes under Directive 95/2/EC are repealed on adoption of the Union list of food enzymes.
FDA Substances Added to Food inventory — alpha-amylase enzyme preparations
Listed as GRAS enzyme preparations for use in baking and starch processing.

Why this class

Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.

Our confidence in this row's classification is medium. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.