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What ingredients that can be used to improve the pale colour of strawberry jam?

July 24, 2015
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Below, are a few ingredients that can be used to improve the pale colour of strawberry jam:-

Proposed Ingredients Functions
Synthetic Colourings
  • Synthetic colours are added to foods to replace natural colour during processing and to produce products with consumer appeal (Tripathi et al., 2007).
Fruit Juice Concentrates (Example: Strawberry/ Black Carrot Juice Concentrates)
  • Black carrot juice concentrate can be added to enhance the colour of strawberry jam as it helps in stabilizing the colour (Kirca et al., 2007).
  • Adding up to 20% of purple carrot purees during strawberry jam processing enhanced the colour stabilization (Abdel-Hady et al., 2014).

 

References

Abdel-Hady, M. M., Attia, G. Y. & Ali, A. M. (2014). Color Stability of Strawberry Jam Fortified by Purple Carrot Puree. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 92 (1).

Kirca, A., Ozkan, M. & Cemeroglu, B. (2007). Storage stability of strawberry jam color enhanced with Black Carrot Juice Concentrate. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, 31(5), 531-545. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4549.2007.00140.x

Tripathi, M. Khanna, S. K. & Das, M. (2007). Surveillance on use of synthetic colours in eatable vis a vis Prevention of Food Adulteration Act of India. Elsevier, 18(3), 211-219.

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