Natural Gardenia Yellow Color

Gardenia Extract Gardenia Yellow Pigment Powder for natural yellow colorant

Gardenia Yellow, a pure natural and water soluble food color ,is extracted from the gardenia fruit of madder family (Gardenia jasmimoides ELLIS) by the process of crushing, extracting, filtrating, purifying, concentrating, sterilizing, spraying & drying. The main coloring ingredient is crocin and crocetin.

Character:
1. Appearance:Yellow or orange yellow powder.
2. Solubility: It is easily soluble in water, ethanol water liquor, not soluble in acetone and oil.
3. Stability:
(1). Ph value has almost no influence to its color value. It's steadier than beta-carotene in either PH3-11.
(2). Excellent revivification-resistance and microbe-resistance
(3). The pigment also has a good stability to light, heat and microbe.
(4). The pigment has a good dyeing ability to starch and protein.
(5). Metal ions have no influence on it but Fe. It becomes black when it met Fe.
Gardenia Yellow Application:
It can be used as a natural pigment for flour products, noodles, candy, cookies, drinks, wine, beverage,dairy product, fish and tinned food, cosmetics, silk cloth, cotton cloth, medicines and Chinese Herbs, etc.

Gardenia Yellow Quality Standard

Gardenia  Yellow can be Widely used in instant rice & flour products, fresh-wet pastas and noodles and like products, fresh dried pastas and noodles and like products, fillings for cereal products, cocoa products, chocolates and chocolate products, fruit-flavoured beverages, beverages of fruit and vegetable juice (pulp) , frozen drinks(edible ice excluded) , cakes, preserved fruits,jelly, puffed food,canned nuts & seeds, imitation wine, fried nuts and seeds, salted vegetable, biscuit, fillings for bakery wares, cooked meat (poultry) ,seasonings, solid beverages.

When use Gardenia Yellow, dissolve the color with a small amount of water first, and then mix the color solution with food materials:

The maximum usage limit for instant rice & products is 1.5g/kg,

for raw-wet flour products is 1.0g/kg,

for cereal products fillings is 0.2g/kg,

and for other products is 0.3g/kg.