Purple colored beverages brightened with clouding agents

Details Purple colored beverages brightened with clouding agents Purple colored beverages brightened with clouding agents

1993-03-23

1994-04-05

Hunter, Jeanette

Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products

Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...

Specific dye or pigment per se or compositions containing same

426250, 426590, A23L 200

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053003101

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are beverage products which contain artificial purple-producing dyes and have an improved, brightened purple color. The beverage products contain a liquid beverage component having a light transmittance of not less than about 30%. The beverage products also contain from about 500 to 1200 ppm of a clouding agent, from about 3.5 to 11.5 ppm of FD&C Blue Dye No. 1 and from about 10.5 to 34.5 ppm of FD&C Red Dye No. 40. The weight ratio of the Red to Blue Dye is from about 2.3:1 to 5.6:1. The purple colored beverages have a Hunter L color of from about 23.9 to 10.0, a Hunter a-color of from about 12.7 to 7.4, and a Hunter b-color of from about -2.1 to 2.0. The present invention is particularly useful when applied to shelf stable beverages.

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patent: 4139645 (1979-02-01), Werner
patent: 4167587 (1979-09-01), Danforth
patent: 4479974 (1984-10-01), Schenz
patent: 4529613 (1985-07-01), Mezzino et al.

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