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Does Natural coloring Bug You?

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  Many manufacturers are grabbing every opportunity to emphasize the presence of natural coloring within the food they sell and quickly abandoning artificial food dyes. Why? they need recognised the craze for natural foods and know that folks are trying to find healthier alternatives in their diet. A natural coloring that's becoming so popular in yogurts, candies, jams, sausage, milk, and even cosmetics now's "carmine". Now, before I tell you what "carmine" is, what does it sound wish to you? Some nice herb, flower, or plant? None of those . it is a bug, a red beetle. Now, who goes to suspect that Red 4, Natural Red, E120, Carminic acid, or Crimson Lake are food colorings obtained from some insect! As it's hardly within the expectation of a mean consumer, it does encounter as manufacturers being sneaky, vague and elusive in their ingredient declaration, doesn't it? Can food authorities exit and demand on making things clearer for consumers than n...

Food colors and why natural colors are the right choice-

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  Natural food colors are a better choice than artificial colors. It has been indicated that artificial food coloring is dangerous. The food color has been getting loads of flak for the potential carcinogenic effects and is artificial. If we look at the benefits, then below are the possible reasons for switching to natural food colors considering the recent trends.    Color variety- The natural color has a surprising quantity of colors to choose from. This has been indicated in recent research and development. The abundance of research and development that has gone into finding the alternative to artificial color additives remains. If we look at the example, then from the purple sweet potato extract the natural color is being researched. The major advantages that this potato color extract would bring in would be the stability of color, intense colors and the broader range of colors. Other natural colors are derived from carmine, turmeric and others.  Form- Thoug...