Sucropedia.com - Indicator Value

By Bento, Luis San Miguel
Posted on 2007-11-04    Last edited on 2018-10-29
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IV of sugar colourants (Clarke et al. 1987)



Colourants


IV

Phenols and flavonoids

5,0 � 14

Fructose alkaline degradation products

1,5 � 3,2

Melanoidines

1,0 � 1,2

Caramels

1,0 � 1,5



Comparing with compounds derived from cane pigments, these compounds present a higher molecular weight and a lower colour variation, with pH. As a matter of fact, the IV of these compounds varies between 1.0 and 3.3 (Table) (Clarke et al., 1987) while colourants derived from cane have IV values untill 33 (Paton, 1992).

Bibliography

Clarke M.A., Godshall M.A., Tsang C., Roberts E.J., 1987, Cane sugar colorants in processing operation,
Proc. of C.I.T.S. Conf., 53-88
Paton N.N., 1992, The origin of colour in raw sugar, Proc. of Aust. S.S.C.T. Conf., 8-17

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