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Preloads food additive data (before use).

Doing this ahead of time, prevents 1st query being slow.

foodins.load();
// --> true
const foodins = require('food-ins');

foodins.load();
/* corpus loaded */
// true

foodins('102');
/* 1st query does not need to load (fast) */
// [ { code: '102',
//     names: 'tartrazine',
//     type: 'colour (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #5)',
//     status: 'a e' } ]

foodins('101 a');
/* further queries are always fast */
// [ { code: '102',
//     names: 'tartrazine',
//     type: 'colour (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #5)',
//     status: 'a e' } ]