Food Coloring Agents

01/01/2020 - "Betalains, carotenoids, phycocyanins, and anthocyanins are major food colorants used in the food industry that have documented biological effects, particularly in the prevention and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. "

01/01/2020 - "Betalains, carotenoids, phycocyanins, and anthocyanins are major food colorants used in the food industry that have documented biological effects, particularly in the prevention and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. "

10/01/1955 - "[The problem of food coloring agents in relation to cancer and common fraud]."
01/01/1957 - "[Food coloring agents: conditions favoring cancer, list of toxic dyes, list of suspicious dyes, list of dyes which could be eventually permitted under certain conditions]."
06/01/2010 - "Betalains are water-soluble plant pigments that are widely used as food colorants, and have a wide range of desirable biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, anti-cancer properties. "
01/01/2003 - "Anthocyanin-rich extracts, potent antioxidants and commercially available food coloring agents, have been reported to inhibit growth of various cancer cell lines. "

01/01/2021 - "(2021) begin to fill this gap by reporting a striking potential of widely used food colorants to cause IBD-like colitis in mice."
01/01/2022 - "These results advance the understanding of the mechanisms regulating colitis development caused by IL-23 and food colorants and identify IFN-γ+ cytotoxic CD4+ T cells as a new potential therapeutic target for colitis."
01/01/2021 - "Together these findings suggest that specific food colorants represent novel risk factors for development of colitis in mice with increased IL-23 signaling."
01/01/2021 - "Food colorants metabolized by commensal bacteria promote colitis in mice with dysregulated expression of interleukin-23."
01/01/2021 - "Here, we show that the azo dyes Red 40 and Yellow 6, the most abundant food colorants in the world, can trigger an IBD-like colitis in mice conditionally expressing IL-23, or in two additional animal models in which IL-23 expression was augmented. "

09/01/1982 - "In 504 patients with asthma or rhinitis 1,868 oral challenge tests with analgesics, preservatives and food colorants were performed. "
07/09/1979 - "[Bronchial asthma caused by food preservatives, food coloring agents and aspirin in children]."
10/25/1976 - "Bronchial asthma and rhinitis caused by analgesics, food coloring agents and food preservatives]."