What is a coloring agent
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Jul 29,2023
Food colorants (Food Colorants), is a major category of food additives mainly aimed at coloring food, giving food bright color and improving food color.
Color is one of the most important sensory traits of food, which can bring great visual impact to consumers. Its application in food can be traced back to ancient Egypt, around 1500 BC, when local candy manufacturers used natural extracts and wine to improve the color of candy. With the occurrence of the industrial revolution, the food industry has also developed rapidly, and more and more pigments have been developed, forming an important category of additives-food colorants.
Food colorants (Food Colorants), is a major category of food additives mainly aimed at coloring food, giving food bright color and improving food color. According to the source of the colorant, it can be divided into two categories: natural colorant and synthetic colorant. Natural pigments are partly pigments extracted from plants, such as carotenoids extracted from carrots, lycopene extracted from tomatoes, etc., and some come from animals or microorganisms, such as cochineal red, monascus red, etc. The synthetic colorant is the use of synthetic technology to create non-natural pigments, such as carmine, lemon yellow, bright blue and so on.
The specific role of colorants in food processing and production:
① Improve the natural color deterioration of food caused by processing, and maintain the attractive color of food.
Giving food color, such as candy, jelly and other foods to add food coloring can increase consumers' desire to buy and appetite.
Make the product color uniform, reduce the natural deviation of food or ingredients in color.
Colorant is not terrible, our country for the use of colorants has a strict audit procedures and related use norms. And our country has higher requirements for synthetic pigments, so as long as they are used reasonably in accordance with relevant regulations, artificial pigments, like natural pigments, will not harm human health.
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