Colouring agents

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List of coloring agents[edit | edit source]

  • brilliant blue fcf
  • brown fk
  • brown ht
  • canthaxanthin
  • caramel   adj. Having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow brown;  burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food; firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk; a medium to dark tan color
  • carbazole violet
  • carmine   adj. Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;  a variable color averaging a vivid red; verb color carmine
  • carmoisine
  • chlorophyll - any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
  • chlorophyllin copper complex sodium
  • ci solvent yellow 18
  • ci vat orange 1
  • citranaxanthin
  • citrus red 2
  • cochineal - a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects; mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
  • curcumin
  • eosin - a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures
  • erythrosine
  • ferric oxide - a red oxide of iron
  • green s
  • logwood - spiny shrub or small tree of central america and west indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish red heartwood used in preparing a black dye; very hard brown to brownish red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
  • orange b
  • pigment rubine
  • ponceau 4r
  • quinoline yellow
  • raspberry - red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries; woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries; a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
  • red cherry
  • red 2g
  • red poppy petal
  • red rose petal
  • saffron - dried pungent stigmas of the old world saffron crocus; old world crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food; a shade of yellow tinged with orange
  • sunset yellow fcf
  • tartrazine
  • turmeric - ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning; widely cultivated tropical plant of india having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye
  • vegetable carbon
  • yellow 2g

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