Top 20 Best Natural Food Coloring in 2021

Pigment in fruit & vegetables is perfect for us, and the best way to ensure you are eating enough of each is to eat a variety of different coloured fruits & vegetables. Try to eat at least one serving of fruit or vegetable from each colour band every day. The more you add these natural pigments in daily life routine, The better your health.

RedYellowGreenPurpleBlue
Radish red colourGardenia yellow ChlorophyllGrape skin red colourGardenia Blue
Perilla red colourCarthamus yellow colour Sodium Copper chlorophyllPurple sweet potatoSpirulina Blue
Monascus red colour CurcuminCabbage red colour
RosmarinicCarthamus red colourBeetroot red colour
Red capsicum Colour Purple carrot colour
Sorghum red colour Purple Corn Red Colour

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Purple Sweet Potato Red Color 

Sweet Potato Red Color ( E163)

  • These violet Sweet potatoes are purifying from the rhizome of sweet potato. This pigment shows a reversible change in the molecule's structure as a pH change from acidic to basic.

Advantages

  • These pigments are easy water-soluble pigment
  • Stabilize best light and heat under the PH2
  • Promotes the health of the Gut
  • Suitable for curing asthma symptoms

Uses

  • Energy drinks
  • Juices
  • Yogurt
  • On salad dressing
  • Flavours
  • Spirit

Purple Corn red colour

Purple Corn red colour

  • It requires a broad range to function of the manufacturing
  • pH must be 2-6

Flavour

Like Sweet corn

Uses

  • Soft drinks
  • Baked snacks
  • Cereals protein

Grape Skin Red Colour

Grape Skin Red Color

  • They are types of polyphenol that we get through grapes skin which have anthocyanins.

Advantages

  • water-soluble
  • Contains anthocyanins
  • Strong Absorb Light b/w 460-550nm

 Uses

  • Beverages and water ice
  • Fruit Preps
  • Jams & Jellies
  • Works with other products that have low PH
  • At High Ph levels, hue shifts to bluish violet & blue
  • On Below 3.5 PH level red is viloetre

Cabbage red colour

Cabbage red colour

  • Its water-soluble pigment which is an anthocyanin that changes its colour when it is mix with the acid or base
  • Dye turn red when pH is <7
  • It turns bluish-green when pH is >7

Advantages

  • Reduces Heart disease
  • It helps promote healthy bones
  • Best for the digestive system

           Uses

  • Energy drinks, flavours
  • Soy drinks
  • Spirits and Juice drinks
  • Fruit preparations & breakfast cereal
  • Dry mixes

Beetroot red colour 

 Beetroot red colour (E162) CAS: 7659-95-2

  • Betanin is glycosidic food colour that we get from the beets by breaking down a molecule of the glucose
  • It food colour additive

Advantages

  • Best for hypertension & heart health
  • Improves oxygen levels in the brain
  • Decrease glucose level, which is good for diabetes
  • Bright red colourant

Uses

  • It is in the liquid & powder form, which we can use various products to colour
  • Use in frozen & low moisture products like yogurt, flavour milk dry desserts

Purple carrot colour

  Purple Carrot red colour ( E330)

  • This pigment found in watermelon & tomatoes and having powerful antioxidants properties

Benefits

  • Improves Heart health
  • Reduce inflammation

Taste

It tastes like subtle peppery 

Red pigment

Red capsicum colour

Red capsicum colour

Colour

  • Dark red

Component

  • Capsanthin, capsorubin and cryptocapsin

                    Uses

  • It is use in instant noodles, meat salad etc

Perilla red colour

 Perilla red colour

  • Its like natural pigment, comes from fresh leaves of perilla
  • 2-6 pH can influence its stability & influence

Colour

  • Deep red liquid
  • On pH level 7.0 colour is blue
  • pH >7.0 colour us like unstable green

Component

  • shisonina
  • Antixiodant

Uses

  • Colouring the wine, acid & juice drinks
  • Jam & Candy

Radish Red colour

Radish red colour (Color Value: E10~90)

  • It’s a natural pigment extracted from a red core that is concentrate, washed, digested, chopped. Its good for controlling blood pressure

Component

  • Anthocyanin

Advantages

  • Detoxify liver
  • Improves blood flow
  • It helps against diseases

Uses

  • Beverages
  • Ice creams, fruit milk
  • Pastry & candy
  • Cosmetics

Rosmarinic Acid

 Rosmarinic Acid  (CN105315706B)

  • It is also a water-soluble pigment & that we can mix with anthocyanin pigments.

       Uses

  • Beverages, cosmetics & pharmaceutical
  • To stabilize anthocyanin pigments
  • Juices & wines

Monascus  red colour

Monascus red colour

It’s a natural pigment that used for blood production & cholesterol-lowering 

Advantages

  • Best for diabetes
  • Cholesterol
  • Heart diseases
  • Prevent Cancer

Uses

  • Pharmaceuticals

Sorghum red colour

Sorghum red colour

  • It’s gluten-free best for people who suffer from gluten intolerance. It's used in livestock & and to grow enthanol plants

Colour

  • Red

Uses

  • Beverages
  • Syrups
  • Animal fodder

Yellow Category

Gardenia yellow

Gardenia yellow ( specs ‘’ 1%, 1cm­) =60-500

  • This pigment has strong alkali & acid-resistant. Its water-soluble & its pH is 3-10. Its revivification and resistance of microbe are excellent 

Colour

Yellowish hue

         Uses

  • Flour product
  • Cakes, Jam, jelly, candies, chestnut
  • Chocolate, yellow rice, cotton cloth
  • Chinese Herb etc.

Carthamus yellow colour

Carthamus yellow colour (E 100/21 CAS78281-02-4)

  • It attains from the extraction of the corolla ( petals). It is water-soluble. It consists of sugar & salt & protein.

Colour

  • Yellow

Benefits

  • Lower cholesterol levels
  • Lower the high blood pressure
  • Prevents Stroke

Curcumin

Curcumin

  • It’s turmeric which we make by grinding the rhizomes

Component

  • Demethoxycurcumin & bidemethoxycurcumin

Uses

  • Flavours, Salad dressing
  • Sauces, Soups
  • Cereal, Fats oil, etc.

Carthamus red colour

Carthamus red colour (36338-96-2)

  • It is a natural pigment from safflower. In the past, called by the name of Cathamine. Soluble in water, ethanol & ether

Components

  • tinctorius L

Uses

  • Ice cream
  • Dairy products
  • Sugarcoating
  • Noodles & Japanese sweet
  • Tableted products, etc.

Green Category

Gardenia Blue

  • It’s a water-soluble pigment that uses in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Good in heat, light resistance and its colour is stable.

Application

  • Colouring popsicle
  • Ice cream, fruit wine
  • Cocoa product, coating for tablets etc

Spirulina blue

  • It’s a natural pigment rich in vitamins which helps to protect cells from damage
  • Component is Phycocyanin

Colour

  • Blue powder

Application

  • Smoothie
  • Baked items
  • Noodles, etc.

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