Colouring compositions
AssigneeGivaudan SA
InventorsLuciana Andreia De Souza Cunha, Altieres Almeida, Alexandre Ferreira Costa, Reginaldo Guilherme, Fabio Magalhaes De Mello, Mathieu Tenon
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Abstract
The invention relates to novel food colouring compositions that are able to change their colour upon heating mimicking the colour appearance of meat changing from raw state to cooked or to fried meat in plant-based foodstuffs or beverages, and it further relates to foodstuffs comprising such colouring compositions, their use and to a method of providing the colouring composition as well as to a method of providing the respective foodstuff or beverage comprising the colouring composition.
Claims12
A colouring composition for foodstuffs or beverages, characterized in that the colouring composition provides a colour change upon heating from red to brown, comprising lutein, iron in the ferrous state and optionally chlorophyll, characterized in that the pH of the colouring composition is below 7, wherein the colouring composition comprises an extract of a plant of the Justicia genus.
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