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Food colours
See NATCOL’s webpage “What are natural colours?”
Food colours allow to achieve the desired colour for certain foodstuffs or to enhance their original colour lightened due to cooking or exposure to light, air, humidity, inter alia. Food colours are often of vegetable origin such as beetroot red, turmeric, carotenes, chlorophyll, paprika extract… They are used in desserts, confectionaries, soups or cooked pork meats. Food colours also include caramel colours, which are mainly used in soft drinks, beers, sauces etc.
This section was written with the help of SYNPA.
Watch the Danish Association Ingredients Forum’s video about Colours:
- Beta-carotene (provitamin A), mixed carotenes from Dunaliella salina Food colours, Vitamins
- Beta-carotene from Blakeslea trispora Food colours, Micronutrients and related products
- E 100 Curcumin Food colours
- E 101 Riboflavins Food colours
- E 102 Tartrazine Food colours
- E 104 Quinoline yellow Food colours
- E 110 Sunset yellow FCF, Orange Yellow S Food colours
- E 120 Cochineal, carminic acid, carmines Food colours
- E 122 Azorubin, carmoisine Food colours
- E 123 Amaranth Food colours
- E 124 Ponceau 4 R, Cochineal red A Food colours
- E 127 Erythrosine Food colours
- E 129 Allura Red AC Food colours
- E 131 Patent blue V Food colours
- E 132 Indigotine, indigo carmine Food colours
- E 133 Brillant Blue FCF Food colours
- E 140 Chlorophylls and chlorophyllins Food colours
- E 141 Cu complexes of chlorophylls Food colours
- E 142 Green S Food colours
- E 150b Caramel (caustic sulphite) Food colours
- E 150d Caramel (sulphite ammonia) Food colours
- E 150a Caramel (plain) Food colours
- E 150c Caramel (ammonia) Food colours
- E 151 Brillant Black BN, Black BN Food colours
- E 153 Vegetable carbon Food colours
- E 155 Brown HT Food colours
- E 160d Lycopene Food colours, Micronutrients and related products
- E 160f Ethyl ester of beta-apo-8’-carotenic acid Food colours
- E 160e Beta-apo-8’-carotenal (C30) Food colours
- E 160c Paprika extract, capsanthin, capsorubin Food colours
- E 160a Carotenes Food colours
- E 160b Annatto, bixin, norbixin Food colours
- E 161b Lutein Food colours
- E 161g Canthaxantin Food colours
- E 162 Beetrood Red, betanin Food colours
- E 163 Anthocyanins Food colours
- E 172 Iron oxides and hydroxides Food colours