What are the natural food colorants

Introduction: natural food colorant is also a kind of colorant Let me introduce the types of natural food colorant There are many kinds of natural colorants What kind of natural food colorants do you have? Natural colorants come directly from automatic plants Except for Garcinia, the rest are harmless to human body The state also stipulates the maximum use amount of each natural edible pigment At present, the allowed natural pigments are turmeric, safflower yellow, capsanthin, shellac pigment, red koji rice, soy sauce, beet red, sodium copper chlorophyllin and β - carotene Because of its sensitivity to light, heat, acid and alkali, it is easy to fade and change color in the process of processing and storage, which affects its sensory properties Therefore, synthetic pigments are sometimes added to foods Synthetic pigment is a kind of synthetic pigment, which has many advantages, such as bright color, strong coloring power and various colors, but it has a big disadvantage, namely toxicity (including toxicity, diarrhea and carcinogenicity) These toxicities come from arsenic, lead, copper, phenol, aniline, ether, chloride and sulfate in synthetic pigments, which can cause different degrees of harm to human body At present, amaranth, carmine, lemon yellow, sunset yellow and indigo are allowed to be used in China They are respectively used for fruit flavored water, fruit flavored powder, fruit dew, soda water, prepared wine, red and green silk, canned food and pastry surface coloring, etc Some colorants are used in industry, but some of them are used in food What's the harm of excessive colorants? In fact, a small amount of colorants do not harm people, but excessive use will cause serious harm However, China's food safety detector can accurately check the safety level of food, so consumers can eat it at ease More food safety knowledge is in Baibai safety net Editor in charge: he xianrob