The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Red Yeast Rice:A Natural Food Colourant-An Analysis


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1 Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry, India
2 Department of Botany, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry, India
     

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Food colours are one of the most important and essential additives for food industry and are used to compensate the loss of natural colours of food destroyed during various processing. Food colours are mainly used to make the food more appealing and attractive. The commonly used synthetic food colourants are Tartrazine, Carmoisine, Quinoline yellow and Allura red. The continuous use of these synthetic food colourant might lead to toxic and carcinogenic effect on human beings.
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Josephine Nirmala Many
Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry, India
B. Radhika
Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry, India
T. Ganesan
Department of Botany, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry, India

Abstract


Food colours are one of the most important and essential additives for food industry and are used to compensate the loss of natural colours of food destroyed during various processing. Food colours are mainly used to make the food more appealing and attractive. The commonly used synthetic food colourants are Tartrazine, Carmoisine, Quinoline yellow and Allura red. The continuous use of these synthetic food colourant might lead to toxic and carcinogenic effect on human beings.