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US 4,304,792 AGranted
Naturally food color compositions
AssigneeLever Brothers Company
InventorsBaratham Sreenivasan, Kenneth S. Baker
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Abstract
A natural food colorant composition for oleomargarine which imparts a pleasant yellow color to the margarine with essentially no migration of the color to the margarine container or wrapper. The colorant composition is a mixture of an edible material of natural origin having a predominantly reddish hue, such as annatto, paprika or the like, with an edible material of natural origin having a predominantly yellowish hue, such as palm oil, carrot oil or corn gluten oil.
Claims6
A natural food colorant composition consisting essentially of a mixture of:
- A. an edible material having a predominantly yellowish hue and having a natural origin selected from the group consisting of:
- (1) about 0.1% to about 0.5% corn gluten oil,
- (2) about 1% to about 3% mildly processed palm oil, and
- (3) about 0.02% to about 0.2% carrot oil, and
- B. an edible material having a predominantly reddish hue and having a natural origin selected from the group consisting of:
- (1) about 0.001% to about 0.05% annatto extract, and
- (2) about 0.001% to about 0.05% oleoresin of paprika.
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