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ColorMaker Lycopene is found in soups, sauces, and dressings. Like all carotenoids, it is generally unstable in very low pH (highly acidic) beverages. It can be found in more soft candies than hard candies, because the high heat of hard candy manufacture tends to degrade lycopene color value. Lycopene is somewhat limited in bakery applications (cake and cookie decorating, for example), because it develops an orange-red color, not the “pink” color or “ruby red” color desired by many bakers.

ColorMaker Chlorophyll is bright green, but pheophytin (without a magnesium atom) is a dull, drab, olive green. In time, pheophytin breaks down further and turns muddy brown.