Patent ID: 6190686
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: A23G,A23L,A23P,A61K,C08K,C09B,C09C

Abstract:
A ready-to-use water dispersible pigment composition that contains in excess of 10% by weight of water, the composition comprising a dispersion of a water-insoluble and/or hydrophobic natural pigment in the form of bodies of an average size which is at the most 10 .mu.m, said bodies being dispersed in the absence of a surface active substance in an aqueous phase comprising a hydrocolloid in an amount of at least 1% by weight of the pigment, the composition, when it is added to a food product or a pharmaceutical product comprising multiple, separated compartments, whereby the composition is dispersed in one or more selected compartments, essentially does not migrate from said compartment(s) where it is dispersed into other compartments.