Safflower Yellow | High-Stability Water-Soluble Natural Yellow Pigment

Safflower yellow is a high-performance water-soluble natural yellow pigment extracted from safflower petals. It delivers pure, mild color tone, superior safety and outstanding thermal stability. Serving as a premium natural colorant, it perfectly replaces synthetic yellow pigments including tartrazine, fully catering to the global trend of clean-label and healthy food upgrading.

1. Product Source

Safflower yellow is a pure plant-based pigment derived from the dried petals of Carthamus tinctorius L.. Safflower features wide cultivation coverage, sufficient and pollution-free raw material supply. Abundant in natural chalcone active compounds, safflower petals are free of artificial additives, making them a high-quality and reliable raw material for natural yellow pigment production.

Safflower

Safflower

Dry Safflower

Dry Safflower

2. Production Process

Adopting pure physical extraction and refining technologies, the entire production process requires no chemical synthesis and leaves no organic solvent residues. Multi-stage filtration and sophisticated purification procedures eliminate impurities and off-flavors, greatly enhancing the product’s color value and structural stability. All finished products strictly comply with international food additive standards, ensuring consistent quality and high safety.

3. Appearance & Product Properties

The product appears as yellow to yellowish-brown fine powder with excellent water solubility. Its aqueous solution shows a clean, natural lemon yellow shade with soft and eye-friendly color presentation, avoiding the harsh tint of synthetic pigments.

Core advantages: Excellent resistance to heat, acid and light with stable coloring performance in diverse processing environments. The clear and bright aqueous solution will not alter the original flavor, taste or transparency of final food products.

Safflower Yellow

Safflower Yellow Water Solution

4. Food Industry Applications

Beverages, Dairy Drinks & Yogurt: Ideal for fruit beverages, tea drinks, flavored dairy drinks and yogurt. It maintains bright, fade-resistant color without covering natural fruity or milky flavors, and adapts to pasteurization and normal-temperature long-term storage.

Dairy Product

Yoghurt

Beverage

Jellies, Popping Bobs & Candies: Perfect for coloring jellies, double-layer jellies, popping bobs, soft candies and hard candies. It produces uniform, bright and transparent color, endowing finished products with a premium and delicate visual texture.

Jelly

Popping Boba

Soft Candy

Bakery Products: Provides stable coloring for bread, cakes, biscuits, mooncakes and other baked goods. It resists high-temperature baking, browning and color fading, suitable for coloring pastry crusts, fillings and surface decorations.

Cake

Biscuits

Mooncake

Frozen & Snack Foods: Widely applicable to ice cream, ice pops, preserved fruits and canned foods. It retains stable color at low temperatures and uniform appearance throughout shelf life, effectively improving the commercial presentation of finished products.

Ice Cream

Pop Corn

5.Product Advantages

Featuring natural plant origin, zero harmful residues, delicate and transparent color, and strong process compatibility, safflower yellow is an ideal natural pigment replacement for synthetic yellow colors. It helps food manufacturers launch high-quality clean-label and healthy food products with greater market competitiveness.

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