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ColorMaker Caramel is a golden brown (honey or amber) color to a deep dark almost-black brown (coffee or cola) color. It is always water-soluble in either liquid or powdered form and is prepared by the controlled heating of food grade carbohydrates with or without added chemical catalysts.

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 Beet have been cultivated as a table vegetable in all temperate climes for many thousands of years. Who has not experienced the deep red-purple color of the broth after boiling beets? In traditional processing, the beets are prepared by blanching, cutting, hydraulic pressing of the root and vacuum concentrating the filtered expressed liquid to 60-65% total solids. The juice can be spray-dried to a free-flowing pink-red powder with maltodextrin added as a carrier to obviate the stickiness one usually gets with high sucrose containing liquids. The pigments extracted are made up of yellow fractions and a red fraction chemically called betanin, representing 75-95% of the total color present.

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.

ColorMaker Beta-Carotene has been used for centuries to provide a yellow to orange color to foods and cosmetics. Beta-carotene is probably the best known of the largest family of pigments produced by nature, the Carotenoids. Although abundant and extractable from various sources, the beta-carotene utilized by the color industry is made synthetically. This is a relatively new development, with commercial production starting around 1954. This form of beta-carotene, as well as canthaxanthin and apo-8’-carotenal similarly synthesized, are permitted for use as color additives in the US and Europe and are usually referred to as “nature-identical.”.