Part1. What is Gardenia Yellow Color?
Crocin is a natural food coloring extracted from the dried and mature fruit of Rubiaceae Gardenia jas minodes according to modern bioengineering principles and a unique high-tech production process.
Gardenia yellow powder is generally orange-yellow powder or dark yellow liquid. Its main components are crocin and crocetin. It is a rare water-soluble carotenoid, and its aqueous solution is lemon yellow.
Part2. Features of Gardenia Yellow Pigment:
⒈Good stability, strong coloring power Gardenia yellow pigment has good reduction resistance, good microbial resistance, light resistance and heat resistance, basically unchanged color in the range of pH value 4-11, stable to metal ions; dyeing to starch and protein The effect is good.
2. Good safety Gardenia has a history of thousands of years of use in China. People use gardenia to make tea, and decoct it with malt, three dregs, and chrysanthemum as a heatstroke prevention drink. In 1998, the Ministry of Health announced the list of varieties that are both food and medicine, and Gardenia is the first batch. The China-Japan food coloring standard discussion meeting was held in Beijing not long ago. The content of this meeting is that China and Japan will discuss and unify the standards of Monascus Red and Gardenia Yellow, and then jointly report to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). After evaluation by the organization, an international Sexual product quality technical standards. In this way, gardenia yellow can be widely used all over the world.
3. Nutritious ,the main components of gardenia yellow are crocin and crocetin, which are rare water-soluble carotenoids that are easily absorbed by the human body and can be converted into vitamin A in the human body. It can supplement the lack of vitamins in the human body and is a nutritional coloring agent.
4. It has health care effect. Gardenia is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. Gardenia yellow has the effect similar to gardenia. It has the functions of clearing away heat and fire, cooling blood and promoting gallbladder, and lowering cholesterol. All-in-one natural plant pigment
