Colouring agents

List of coloring agents

• brilliant blue fcf
• brown fk
• brown ht
• canthaxanthin
• caramel   adj. Having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow brown;  burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food; firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk; a medium to dark tan color
• carbazole violet
• carmine   adj. Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;  a variable color averaging a vivid red; verb color carmine
• carmoisine
• chlorophyll - any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
• chlorophyllin copper complex sodium
• ci solvent yellow 18
• ci vat orange 1
• citranaxanthin
• citrus red 2
• cochineal - a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects; mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
• curcumin
• eosin - a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures
• erythrosine
• ferric oxide - a red oxide of iron
• green s
• logwood - spiny shrub or small tree of central america and west indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish red heartwood used in preparing a black dye; very hard brown to brownish red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
• orange b
• pigment rubine
• ponceau 4r
• quinoline yellow
• raspberry - red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries; woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries; a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
• red cherry
• red 2g
• red poppy petal
• red rose petal
• saffron - dried pungent stigmas of the old world saffron crocus; old world crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food; a shade of yellow tinged with orange
• sunset yellow fcf
• tartrazine
• turmeric - ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning; widely cultivated tropical plant of india having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye
• vegetable carbon
• yellow 2g