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    Food safety tips: take you to understand food coloring

    • Last Update: 2021-07-23
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    Original title: Take you to understand food coloring

    The three-character scripture says: green, red, yellow, and black and white.


    In China, red yeast rice has been produced and used for more than 1,000 years.


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


    Food natural colorants are mainly derived from natural pigments, which are 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 structure: azo pigments such as amaranth, carmine, sunset yellow, lemon yellow, etc.


    Regardless of whether natural colorants or synthetic colorants are consumed, the state must conduct strict risk assessment on their safety.


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

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