Food colour · Ingredients & raw materials
Ponceau 4R (INS 124)
9+ suppliersWater soluble synthetic azo dye giving a bright strawberry or tomato red, common in Indian sweets, syrups, sauces, jams, ice candy and confectionery. It is on the FSSAI permitted synthetic colour list for the categories in Appendix A, usually capped at 100 mg/kg of final food singly or in combination.
Strength 2
- 85% min dye content (standard)
- 90% min dye content (high strength)
Form 2
- Powder
- Granules (dust free)
Pack size 4
- 500 g pack
- 1 kg pack
- 6 kg pack
- 25 kg bag or drum
Spec
- INS number
- 124
- CAS number
- 2611-82-7
- Colour Index
- CI 16255 (Food Red 7)
- Appearance
- Red powder or granules
- Shade in solution
- Bright scarlet red
- Dye content
- 85% min total colouring matter
- Solubility
- Freely soluble in water
- Standard met
- FSSAI (FSS Food Products Standards and Food Additives Regulations 2011), JECFA
- Typical use level
- Up to 100 mg/kg of final food, per FSSAI category limits
- Shelf life
- 3 to 5 years in sealed pack
- Storage
- Cool, dry place in tightly closed container
- Usual minimum
- 1 kg
- HSN code
- 32041983
- GST
- 18%
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