For food and beverage manufacturers, maintaining the colour consistency during processing, storage, and transportation is a major challenge. Factors such as heat, light exposure, pH changes, and moisture can affect the final appearance of food and beverage products. Since colour is often the first thing consumers notice, and that's why manufacturers need a reliable colouring solution that maintains shade stability and consistency throughout the product’s shelf life.
However, sometimes food product manufacturers face challenges when using colours in their products, as they fade or change over time. They can overcome their challenges by using high-performance synthetic food colours in their products that offer stability, regulatory compliance, and batch-to-batch consistency that they can source from a trusted and reliable synthetic food colour manufacturer like Ajanta Food Colours.
Ajanta Food Colours is a trusted premium-quality synthetic food colour manufacturer in India with over 75 years of legacy. The company offers a wide range of supra colourants, including water-soluble dyes, lake colours, and blended colours. Before reaching manufacturers, Ajanta’s colourants undergo rigorous testing for colour fading, shade inconsistency, heat stability, and regulatory compliance. This ensures the safety and premium quality of colours for human consumption.
Manufacturers who want to sell their products in the local market or export them to the international market must maintain colour quality. At Ajanta Food Colours, we manufacture colourants that are widely used in international food and beverage manufacturing and fully comply with the stringent purity and safety standards of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
Here is the technical matrix of some colourants commonly used in the food industry, including their E-number, heat stability, water solubility, and international regulatory approvals.
| Colour Name (Synonyms & E-Numbers) | Heat Stability | Water Solubility | Regulatory Status |
| Tartrazine (FD&C Yellow 5 / E102) | Excellent (Stable up to 180°C) | High | U.S. FDA, EFSA, NMPA, MHLW & FSSAI |
| Sunset Yellow FCF (FD&C Yellow 6 / E110) | Very Good (Stable up to 160°C) | High | U.S. FDA, EFSA, NMPA, MHLW & FSSAI |
| Allura Red AC (FD&C Red 40 / E129) | Excellent (Stable up to 200°C) | High | U.S. FDA, EFSA, NMPA, MHLW & FSSAI |
| Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C Blue 1 / E133) | Excellent (Stable up to 200°C) | Very High | U.S. FDA, EFSA, NMPA, MHLW & FSSAI |
| Indigo Carmine (FD&C Blue 2 / E132) | Good (Stable up to 130°C) | Moderate | U.S. FDA, EFSA, NMPA, MHLW & FSSAI |
Technical Grade Solutions for Every Application
Our pastes, liquids, and powder colours are engineered to handle shifting of pH levels and high temperatures. This keeps your product colours consistent from the production line to the consumer’s hand. These colourants cover a range of applications that include:
Confectionery & Bakery: High-brilliance pastes and gels for candies, cakes, and cookies.
Beverage Systems: High-solubility liquids for soft drinks, energy drinks, and sports nutrition.
Dairy & Snacks: Uniformly dispersing granules and powders for savory snacks and dairy products.
Precision Manufacturing & Lab-Verified Purity
At Ajanta Food Colours, we bridge the gap between chemistry and food safety. Every colour batch undergoes rigorous testing in our advanced, eco-friendly manufacturing plants. We use the latest machinery and state-of-the-art laboratory technology to maintain strict quality consistency, including:
Heavy Metal Detection
Utilizing ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy) technology ensures all food colour raw materials meet stringent global safety limits for heavy metals.
Impurity Profiling
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) ensures maximum organic purity of every batch and maintains regulatory compliance for international exports.
Strength & Consistency
UV Spectrometry and advanced colour matching machines guarantee the batch-to-batch shade uniformity that ensures the "Egg Yellow" you buy today is identical to the one you bought last year. This colour uniformity in products helps to protect your brand’s visual identity.
Global Compliance & Certification
We comply with all the international food laws that allow us to export our food colours globally. Whether you want to purchase U.S. FDA and EFSA compliant food colours or FSSAI approved synthetic dyes, our food colours are globally compliant and approved for use in a wide range of food and beverage products.
For the quality and safety of our colourants, we received various awards and certificates from International bodies such as the Arch of Europe Award, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Award, certifications from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA), as well as Halal, Alcumus ISOQAR, Star-K Kosher, Food Safety System 22000 (FSSC 22000), and ISOQAR.
These awards and certificates show Ajanta Food Colours' expertise and over 75 years of legacy in the field of food and beverage colour manufacturing.