Gardenia Yellow

Extract Category: Natural Food Color

Extract Class: Food Additives

Gardenia Yellow, a pure natural and water soluble food color ,is extracted from the gardenia fruit of madder family (Gardenia jasmimoides ELLIS) by the process of crushing, extracting, filtrating, purifying, concentrating, sterilizing, spraying & drying. The main coloring ingredient is crocin and crocetin.

Characteristics: ardenia Yellow is a yellow powder, can be dissolved in water and alcohol solution easily. It has a good resistance to light and temperature in neutral and weak alkaline mediums.

Quality Standard

Items	Enterprise Standard	GB 7912~87
Appearance	Yellow Powder	Orange Powder
Color v-alue E(1%. 1cm. 430~445nm)	60~550	More than 24(440nm)
Loss on Drying % Less than	7	7
Ash % Less than	4	9
Heavy metal ppm Less than	10	10
Lead ppm Less than	2	2
Arsenic ppm Less than	3	3
Total plate count cfu/g less than	1000
Pathogenic Bactenia	None

Application and Usage Reference

Gardenia Yellow can be used as coloring in the production of beverage, wine, cake, ice-cream, ice-lolly, preserved fruit, expansion food, jelly, flour cake, candy .The usage reference for 60 CV is 0.01-0.03%,the usage quantity can be decreased if the CV is more than 60.

Package

Plastic container with inner plastic bags, the net weight for each container is 20kg.Package standards are available according to consumer's demand.

Storage

Sealed, avoid light, store in a cool & dry place.

Shelf life

12 months from production date if the storage condition attains as mentioned above. Once opened, should seal up again and use within 6 months.