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    Food safety consumption tips: take you to understand food coloring

    • Last Update: 2022-09-16
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    The Three Character Classic says: Green, red and yellow, and black and white, these five colors are recognized by the eyes


    In China, red yeast rice has a history of more than 1,000 years of production and use.


    Food coloring, also known as coloring agent, is a substance that imparts and improves food color and is a food additive


    There are also a variety of colorants of the same color


    Edible natural colorants are mainly derived from natural pigments, which are mainly divided into three types according to their sources: plant pigments such as capsicum red, turmeric, natural carotene, etc.


    Edible synthetic colorants are divided into two types according to their chemical structures: azo pigments such as amaranth, carmine, sunset yellow, lemon yellow, etc.


    Regardless of whether it is edible natural colorants or edible synthetic colorants, the state must carry out a strict risk assessment for their safety, and only through risk assessment and approval can they be used as edible colorants


    [Excerpted from "How to Eat Safer - Tips for Food Safety Consumption (2018-2019)" compiled by the State Administration for Market Regulation and China Institute of Food Science and Technology]

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