How to use color in bakery products

With the continuous improvement of living standards, accelerated pace of life, nutrition and convenience of diet, the consumer market of bakery products has grown rapidly

Baked products such as birthday cakes not only use fruits to set off the color, but also add different colors of fruit and vegetable powders or pigments to the cream to make the cake colorful

Natural pigments such as monascus red, beta-carotene, vegetable carbon black, turmeric, etc.

Another major category of bakery products is bread, where only a few natural colors are allowed, and the number of natural colors allowed is also less than in pastries

By comparing the permitted pigment requirements for the above three types of bakery products, it can be found that the greater the consumption of products that are close to the staple food, the more restricted and stricter the use of pigments will be

(Shen Juquan)

"China Food News" (06 edition on October 25, 2021)

(Editor-in-charge: Yang Xiaojing)