Application of Curcumin as Food Additive


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Jul 29,2023

Curcumin has been widely used in the food industry as a common natural pigment for a long time. It is mainly used for the dyeing of canned food, sausage products and sauce products, and its usage is determined according to the normal production needs. The product form of functional food with curcumin as the main component can be general food or some non-food forms, such as capsules, pills or tablets.

Curcumin has been widely used in the food industry as a common natural pigment for a long time. It is mainly used for the dyeing of canned food, sausage products and sauce products, and its usage is determined according to the normal production needs. The product form of functional food with curcumin as the main component can be general food or some non-food forms, such as capsules, pills or tablets. For the general food form, you can consider some yellow food, such as cakes, sweets, drinks and so on. Curcumin also has an antiseptic effect. At present, curcumin is widely used in food industry as condiment and pigment at home and abroad. Turmeric can replace the precious spice saffron in medieval Europe. It is also an indispensable traditional curry food in Indian life, a common barbecue roll in the Middle East, a common condiment in Persian and Thai dishes, and a common pigment in mustard sauce. Curcumin used for food coloring is mainly divided into four categories: water-dispersible turmeric oil, water-dispersible purified turmeric, oil-soluble purified curcumin and purified turmeric powder. China began to study and apply curcumin in the middle and late 1980 s, and reached its peak in the early 1990 s. However, due to product quality, the degree of marketization is not high. At present, China has developed water-soluble and oil-soluble curcumin products comparable to foreign countries, and produced curcumin of various colors through compounding, which has been widely used in pasta, beverages, fruit wine, candy, cakes, canned food, fruit juice and cooking dishes, as a compound seasoning, it is used in chicken essence compound seasoning, puffed seasoning, instant noodles and noodle puffed products, convenience food seasoning, hot pot sauce, cream flavor and spice, seasoning sauce, beef jerky products, etc. China is one of the main producing areas of turmeric in the world, with rich resources. At present, the annual output has reached tens of thousands of tons, which has a good market advantage.

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Tianxu company mainly produces curcumin, red rice red, purple grass red, pepper red pigment and other four series of more than 40 varieties, the company's main product curcumin production and sales accounted for about 70% of the country's total, firmly in the forefront of the domestic turmeric industry.

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