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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