Color Additives Flashcards
natural additive is
extracted from food and non food items
color additives
synthetically produced
earliest regulation of color additives was by
king edward 1
1396 french law
against color to butter
1574 french law
forbids use of color pastries to stimulate eggs
1820
english chemist freidrich accum published
A treatise on adulterations of food and culinary poisons
blue
berries
anthocyanins
pink/orange
fish algae
canthaxanthin
green
algae
chlorophyll
grey
burned wood
charcoal
red/purple
insects
cochineal
red/brown
rusting metal
iron oxide
orange/red
paprika
chilipeppers
orange yellow
crocus flower
saffron
yellow
tumeric
Food aldulteration act of 1860
england
did nothing but scare consumers
which state was the last to ban coloring of margarine
wisconsin 1967
Delaney clause of 1960
cannot use any color/additives/pesticides that show cancer in man or animal
Red scare of 1970
REd 2
toxic to gonads
no red m & ms
yellow dye myth
1990s said yellow #5 in mountain dew reduce sperm
cochinel extract and carmine
crushed female cochineal bugs
can cause allergic rxn
FDA doesnt say they are from bugs
dye is
water soluble color
lakes is
dyes that are dispersed in oil emulsions
used for fat based foods
ex red 40
FD & C
certified for use in food drugs and cosmetics
