Food Grade Natural Gardenia Yellow Powder CAS 94238-00-3 Manufacturer
What is Gardenia Yellow ?
Gardenia Yellow is a premium natural plant pigment primarily extracted from the ripe fruits of Gardenia jasminoides. Classified under the carotenoid family, its core coloring active ingredient is crocin, which endows it with a bright, stable natural yellow hue.
Common production techniques for Gardenia Yellow include water extraction, ethanol solvent extraction, and combined ethanol-ether extraction processes, all retaining the natural active components of the raw gardenia fruit.
As an excellent natural colorant, it enjoys extensive applications across the food industry, widely used in fruit juice beverages, blended wines, pastry coloring, popsicles, ice cream, puffed foods, jellies, cakes, candies and canned chestnuts.
Apart from its function as a natural food additive, Gardenia Yellow also offers natural wellness properties, including clearing heat, detoxifying the body and promoting bile secretion. Featuring safety, non-toxicity and good compatibility, it is an ideal clean-label natural pigment for food manufacturing.
What are the benefits?
1. Clear Internal Heat and Soothe Mood
Gardenia effectively purges lung fire, clears heart heat, and relieves stagnation and latent heat in the body. It excels at draining heat from the three jiao (triple burner), helping alleviate irritability, restlessness, fidgetiness and mental unease.
2. Eliminate Dampness, Promote Diuresis and Reduce Jaundice
Gardenia can dispel superficial damp-heat, unblock stranguria and promote smooth urination. It also clears heat from the liver and gallbladder, accelerates dampness drainage and relieves jaundice. It is commonly used to improve urinary discomforts such as bloody stranguria and heat-type stranguria.
3. Clear Liver Heat and Improve Eyesight
It works efficiently to clear liver heat and brighten the eyes, suitable for relieving eye redness, swelling and pain, dizziness and blurred vision caused by accumulated heat in the liver and gallbladder.
4. Clear Heat, Cool Blood, Activate Circulation and Reduce Swelling
Gardenia possesses the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, as well as promoting blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis and reduce swelling, making it effective for heat-induced blood disorders and inflammatory swelling symptoms.
Application Areas Overview
Food Industry
As an excellent natural plant pigment, Gardenia Yellow is widely applied in food coloring. It is suitable for juice and flavored beverages, blended wines, cakes, ice cream, candies, preserved fruits, puffed snacks, bread, jelly and more, endowing finished products with a bright, natural and stable yellow shade.
Beyond coloring performance, Gardenia Yellow also delivers valuable nutritional and healthcare benefits, including liver and gallbladder protection, calming the mind, hemostasis and detumescence, clearing heat and relieving restlessness, promoting diuresis, as well as cooling blood and detoxification.
Cosmetics Industry
Gardenia Yellow pigment is also an ideal natural colorant for the cosmetics industry. It can be formulated into lipsticks, eyeshadows and other makeup products, creating a soft, vivid and natural yellow tone that conforms to the requirements of clean-label cosmetic raw materials.
