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Food Additives & Ingredients Association
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Food colouring
This resource can be used to demonstrate an understanding of the role of food colourings in products. Activities include an extraction of the food colours used in sweets and then a separation of these colours using chromatography. A final task involves investigating how acid and alkali levels affect both natural and artificial colours in food products.
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