Gardenia Yellow
Description:
Gardenia Yellow, a pure natural and water soluble food color ,is extracted from the gardenia fruit of madder family (Gardenia jasmimoides ELLIS) by the process of crushing, extracting, filtrating, purifying, concentrating, sterilizing, spraying & drying. The main coloring ingredient is crocin and crocetin.
Properties
Gardenia Yellow is a yellow powder, can be dissolved in water and alcohol solution easily. It has a good resistance to light and temperature in neutral and weak alkaline mediums.
Specification:
ItemsEnterprise StandardAppearanceYellow or orange PowderColor Value E (1%,1cm,440±5nm)60~550Loss on Drying 7Ash4Lead(as Pb) 3Arsenic(as As)2Aerobic plate count1,000Pathogenic BacteniaNegative
Application:
Gardenia Yellow can be Widely used in instant rice & flour products, fresh-wet pastas and noodles and like products, fresh dried pastas and noodles and like products, fillings for cereal products, cocoa products, chocolates and chocolate products, fruit-flavoured beverages, beverages of fruit and vegetable juice (pulp) , frozen drinks(edible ice excluded) , cakes, preserved fruits,jelly, puffed food,canned nuts & seeds, imitation wine, fried nuts and seeds, salted vegetable, biscuit, fillings for bakery wares, cooked meat (poultry) ,seasonings, solid beverages.
When use Gardenia Yellow, dissolve the color with a small amount of water first, and then mix the color solution with food materials
Usage Reference:
The maximum usage limit for instant rice & products is 1.5g/kg,for raw-wet flour products is 1.0g/kg, for cereal products fillings is 0.2g/kg,and for other products is 0.3g/kg.