Red Yeast Rice:A Natural Food Colourant-An Analysis

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Authors

  • Josephine Nirmala Many
     Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry ,IN
  • B. Radhika
     Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry ,IN
  • T. Ganesan
     Department of Botany, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry ,IN

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.

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Published

2012-09-01

How to Cite

Many, J. N., Radhika, B., & Ganesan, T. (2012). Red Yeast Rice:A Natural Food Colourant-An Analysis. The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 49(9), 395–400. Retrieved from https://informaticsjournals.com/index.php/ijnd/article/view/4551

Issue

Volume 49, Issue 9, September 2012

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