Mostly used in drinks, juices, sauces and have pastries and other food, usually buy food, look at their color is particularly beautiful, indicating that it is in the production of adding coloring.

Life coloring is actually divided into two categories, one is food coloring, a class of industrial pigments, industrial pigments are used in industrial production is an important industrial raw materials, usually see a lot of items with a beautiful color is in the production of industrial pigments added to the reason. Food coloring is divided into synthetic and natural coloring, two natural coloring is safer, is extracted from a variety of plant pigments, while artificial coloring is a number of chemical raw materials synthetic coloring.

A life in the application of pigments

Life in the pigment used in candy, pastries and raw materials and other food production, these pigments belong to the synthetic food coloring, they have a strong coloring ability, stability is also relatively good, and odorless, tasteless, color and lustre is extremely bright, especially easy to dissolve in water, it is as a food production raw materials added in. After adding it as a raw material for food production, it will make the color of the products produced more beautiful, and better attract the attention of consumers when sold.

Two, food coloring notes

Color although it can be used in food processing and production, can make food production after the color more beautiful, but in the food coloring should also pay attention to synthetic food coloring, is not added to meat and fish and other meat ingredients in addition to those condiments and dairy products, as well as baby cookies can not be added to synthetic food coloring. Synthetic food coloring can not be added, or they will produce some harmful substances, which can be harmful to human health after a long time.

Three, the harm of food coloring

Food coloring is very common and very often wet a lot of essential raw materials in the food processing industry, but it is also a slightly toxic substances, especially those synthetic food coloring, containing some carcinogenic substances, if people eat for a long time to add the coloring of food, it will make the body cells cancerous.

It is a very important ingredient of the human body, but it is also a slightly toxic substance, especially those synthetic food colorings, which contain some carcinogenic substances.