Food colour · Ingredients & raw materials
Tartrazine (INS 102)
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Water soluble synthetic azo dye giving a lemon yellow shade, used in beverages, confectionery, jelly crystals, custard powder, bakery toppings and snack seasonings. Listed among FSSAI permitted synthetic colours; use is limited to the food categories in Appendix A, typically up to 100 mg/kg of final food singly or in combination, and the pack must state that it contains permitted synthetic food colour.
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
- 102
- CAS number
- 1934-21-0
- Colour Index
- CI 19140 (Food Yellow 4)
- Appearance
- Yellow to orange yellow powder or granules
- Shade in solution
- Lemon yellow
- 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
- 32041982
- GST
- 18%
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