What is plant carbon black?
Vegetable carbon black is an insoluble colorant and is therefore usually used in the form of a suspension. Plant carbon black is made from plant trunks and shells through carbonization. Mainly used in confectionery, often as a masking agent.
The aliases of plant carbon black are plant black, plant charcoal, carbon black, edible carbon black, natural melanin
Plant carbon black English name: Vegetable carbon black
Plant carbon black properties: black powder particles, odorless, tasteless, insoluble in water and organic solvents.
What does plant carbon black do?
The main function of plant carbon black is to use it as melanin, edible processing aid, and adsorbent, so it can be seen that plant carbon black is edible. That is to say, the effect of plant carbon black is to use it as a food additive coloring agent.
Application range of plant carbon black
Plant carbon black can be used in candy, biscuits, cakes, baked goods, grain and grain products, dairy products, sugar and candied foods, rice, ice and noodle products for decoration and coating.
How to use plant carbon black
Here I will introduce a method of using plant carbon black for your reference: when producing licorice candy, use 30% plants and 4% melanin to make black candies; when making chocolate biscuits, use this product and chili red tone color, the addition of plant carbon black is 4% of the amount of flour.
The amount of plant carbon black used in food
According to the GB 2760-2014 National Food Safety Standard Food Additive Use Standard, the food additive plant carbon black can be used in six types of food: frozen drinks (except edible ice), pastries, biscuits, candies and powder balls, of which: frozen drinks (edible ice Except), cakes, biscuits, and candies, the maximum usage amount is 5.0g/kg; the maximum usage amount of powder balls is 1.5g/kg
Plant carbon black detection method
The real plant carbon black is non-toxic and edible, but if you are afraid of buying fake plant carbon black, you need a good method to identify plant carbon black. The specific method is: take 3g of this product, put it in Add 10 mL of 5% dilute hydrochloric acid to a stoppered Erlenmeyer flask, boil for 30 s, let cool at room temperature, add 100 mL of iodine solution, shake vigorously for 30 s, filter with dense filter paper, discard the initial filtrate, and mix 50 mL of the subsequent filtrate with For the control solution (10 mL of iodine solution diluted with water to 50 mL without activated carbon treatment), the color should not be darker than that of the control solution.