Red Cabbage Color

Extract Name: Red Cabbage Color

Extract Category: Natural Food Color

Extract Class: Food Additives

Red Cabbage Color, a pure natural and water soluble food color produced by our company, is extracted from edible red cabbage of Cruiferae family planted locally. The process is checking, washing, slicing, extracting, filtrating, purifying, concentrating, sterilizing（Red Cabbage Color liquid）, spraying & drying（Red Cabbage Color powder）. The main coloring ingredient is anthacyanins which contain cyanidin.

Appearance

Red Cabbage powder is deep red, liquid is brown purple. It can be dissolved in water & alcohol, acetic acid, propylene glycol solution easily, but not in oil. The color of water solution changes when PH is different. When PH is below 3, the color is purple red, the color is pink red when PH is between 4～6, and the colourity is ideal stability. The solution color becomes blue & green, and is unstable when PH is above 6. The color of solution can’t fade under light for a long time, and also has good resistance to high temperature in an acidic medium.

Quality Standard

Items	Enterprise Standard
Items	Powder	Liquid
Color v-alue E（1%、1cm、PH3.0、524～536nm）	20～80	20～30
Moisture % ≤	10.0	80.0
Ash % ≤	2.0	1.0
PH	1.8～4.5	1.8～4.5
Arsenic（as As₂O₃） mg/kg ≤	2.0	1.0
Lead（as Pb） mg./kg ≤	5.0	3.0
Total Plate Count cfu/g ≤	1000	1000
Pathogenic Bacteria	Negative	Negative

Applications

Red Cabbage can be widely used in wine, beverage, fruit sauce, candy, cake.

Usage Reference

Beverages：0.01～0.1%，candy：0.05～0.2%，cake：0.01～0.1%.

Package

Powder is packed with plastic container with inner plastic bags, liquid is packed with plastic container, net weight is for powder 10 or 20kg, for liquid is 25kg. Package standards are also available according to consumer’s demand.

Storage

Sealed, avoid light, store in cool and dry place.

Shelf Life

If the storage condition attains as mentioned above, powder is 18 months from production date, liquid is 6 months. Once opened, should seal up again and use within 6 months（powder）or 1month（liquid）.