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Natural pigments for colorful food and healthier lifestyle

Time: 2013-1-29 12:29:42 From: herbal-ingredient.com

  • Natural pigments are extracted and purified from plants and vegetables. They can be Applied as food additive, coloring ingredients; they contain abundant nutrients, such as antioxidants, polyphenols, etc. In most recent years, natural food colors are welcomed by more and more health conscious and knowledgeable consumers. We, LAYN Natural Ingredients Corp. has been devoted in developing healthy and nutritious natural pigments for food and beverage for many years, we have launched to the market several fantastic colorants for your products:

    SCARLET---Purple sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas )extract: Anthocyanidins 10%, Valeur 50. The amaranthine powder is soluble in water, alcohol and solution of water and alcohol. It can be used in the coloring of wine, carbonic acid drinks, juice drink, jam and candy. Its Antioxidant activity of sweet potato anthocyanidin has shown brilliant effect on inhibiting variety of cancers, including: Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Gallbladder Cancer, and Kidney Cancer, etc.

    YELLOW---Gardenia extract, a pure natural and water and alcohol soluble food color , and It has a good resistance to light and temperature. It is extracted from the gardenia fruit of madder family (Gardenia jasmimoides ELLIS) .The main coloring ingredient is crocin and crocetin.

    RED-----Lycopene: a natural pigment with potential protective activity, as healthy food ingredient., In the last years the interest for lycopene, the main carotenoid in tomatoes, has increased. Many studies support the protective effect of this compound against several pathologies.