Natural Colors

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Introduction for the Natural colours

ExoTreat Flavors is the answer to your search for natural and stable food colours! Our carotene preparations, such as beta-carotene, apo-carotenal, other carotene blends, and carbon black, or particular red for your food, offer varying dyeing strengths that can meet your specific requirements.

Our stable cloudy and turbid emulsions provide a natural look for low-fruit-content beverages. Additionally, when combined with other colours, our cloud emulsions can create a perfect cloudy colour for beverages that lack juice content.

At ExoTreat Flavors, we offer both liquid and powdered forms of food colours to cater to various sectors of the food industry, such as soft drinks, bakery, confectionery, dairy, instant products, meat products, and more. Choose our natural colours solution to bring your products into the spotlight and provide an appealing, natural look.

Annatto

Annatto is a food colouring agent and condiment that is made from the seeds of the achiote tree. Its vibrant colour comes from compounds called carotenoids.

E Code: E160b, Annatto colouring agent widely used in medicine (colouring tablets) and cosmetics (in hair and skin care products) as well as the food sector.

Anthocyanin

Anthocyanin is polyphenol antioxidants that have many impressive health benefits. Today, over 200 different anthocyanin sources have been found in the world.

E-Code: E163, Anthocyanins food colouring agent widely used in the food sector in Confectionery, Dairy, Drinks, Fruity Fillings, Jam, Canned Foods, Breakfast Cereals, Jellies, Marmalade.

Beta Carotene

Beta carotene is a potent antioxidant that may benefit your brain, skin, lung, and eye health. 

E-Code: E160a (i) (ii) (iii), Beta carotene is a fat-soluble compound, which is why eating this nutrient with a fat improves its absorption. Beta Carotene food colouring widely use in Confectionery, Drinks, Baking, Processed Cheese, Breakfast Cereals, spreadable fats, kinds of Margarine

Caramel

One of the most used food colouring agents and is a water-soluble food. Caramel attained by heat treatment of carbohydrates (sugars), in general in the presence of acids, alkalis, or salts, in a process called caramelization. Its colour ranges from pale yellow to amber to dark brown. 

E150a – Plain caramel, E150b – Caustic sulfide caramel, E150c – Ammonium caramel, E150d – Ammonium sulfide caramel

Carbon Black

Carbon black is an over fine grain elementary carbon obtained by poor combustion of gas and liquid hydrocarbons. 

E-Code: E153, Carbon black is an odourless, fine black powder /  black porous solid consisting of carbon. Carbon black food colour obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from vegetation substances/oils.

Carmine

Carmine is the Red colour that accumulates in the shell of pregnant scale insects Dactilopius coccus. A liquid extract is obtained from such dried female insects and then mixed with alumina to produce the alumina solution of carminic acid which is the main colouring agent.

E-Code: E120, Carmine is dark red and highly resistant to light and heat. This is the most oxidation-resistant colourant among natural colourants.

Chlorophyllin

Copper chlorophyllin (Cu-Chl) is a chlorophyll-derived food colourant, commercially available as a complex mixture of different chlorine molecules.

E Code: E141 (i) (ii) (iii), This colouring agent is extracted from plants such as grass, clover, kiwi and spinach with the help of a solvent. Chlorophyllin is a fat-soluble pigment and used for giving different green colour tones to foods

Lutein

Lutein is the most abundant carotenoids in the diet of industrialized countries and known as the natural yellow colour.  These carotenoids are found notably concentrated in leafy green vegetables.

E-Code: E161b,   It is a stable pigment maintaining its colour constancy in changeable constraints such as heat, light and ph. Lutein food colour Widely usees in Confectioner, Dairy, Drinks, Baking products.

Paprika

The paprika extract produced from the fruits of the genus Capsicum is widely consumed as a vegetable, spice, or food colourant. Paprika for the colouring application is available as an oleoresin

E-Code: E160c,   

The two diverse pigments within paprika oleoresin “Capsanthin and capsorubin”. Both pigments are fat-soluble, an intensive orange-red tone as dependent on doses. 

Red Beet

The beet itself is not only healthy and beneficial but can also make natural red food colour with a specific process.  

E-Code: E162, Widely use in Confectionery, Baking, Dairy, Drinks, Chocolate Fillings, Breakfast Cereals, Heat-Treated processed meat (sausage and salami)

Safflower

It is also called Carthamus tinctorius, as a food additive, it is known as Natural Red 26 food colour. It is a colourant obtained with extraction method from flower petals of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius).

Turmeric

It also called “Curcuma”, Turmeric, turmeric oleoresin, and curcumin are yellow colour additives that are used in condiments such as pickles, mustard, seasonings, relish, hot peppers, snacks, baked goods, sauces, salad dressing, oils, margarine, frozen desserts, cheeses, pies, cakes, candies, beverages, frosting, cereal, snacks