Food+Colours

By: Mohamad Iswandi Bin Ishak 104434

Question 1: Colour is a important thing in the food product. In food industry, there are two types of colour which are natural colour and artificial colour. Explain in briefly the two types of colour with example?

Answer 1: Natural colour is any pigments that derived from natural sources such as vegetables, fruits and animals. It is exempted from certification. The example of natural colour are caramel, green colour from daun pandan and others. Artificial colour that use in the food industry are synthetically produced by human. Thus, it need to certified before use in the food. The example of artificial colour are Green colour No.3, Blue colour No.1, Blue colour No.2 and so on.

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