Colours
Colours
Black
Introduction
Natural Black Food Colouring: Make a statement with natural black colours
Meet the growing consumer demand for natural and visually compelling products with our range of natural black food colouring solutions. Plant-Ex offers seamless transitions from artificial blacks, ensuring your products align with evolving market trends and resonate with today’s discerning consumers. Enhance your product’s appeal and build trust with our naturally derived black colours.
Shade
Carbon Black
Produced through the burning of plant material such as coconut shells and peat
Sharp black for intense results
pH: Stable at 3.5
Light: Sensitive
Heat: Good
Beverages, Bakery, Dairy, Confectionery, Snacks, Seasonings
Colour Insight
Carbon black dispersions: Technical advantages for enhanced handling and dispersion
The handling of carbon black powder in food and beverage manufacturing presents significant challenges to production efficiency. Its fine particulate nature results in extensive dusting, leading to messy work environments and requiring frequent, costly factory clean downs. Moreover, the difficulty in achieving uniform dispersion of carbon black can negatively impact product performance and consistency.
Plant-Ex addresses these challenges with our specialised carbon black colour dispersions. These dispersions are engineered to transform the handling of carbon black, offering a more efficient and controlled application process.
Technical Advantages of Carbon Black Dispersions:
- Reduced Dusting and Mess: Our dispersions encapsulate the carbon black particles in a liquid medium, significantly minimizing dusting and mess during handling and processing. This translates to cleaner work environments and reduced clean-down times.
- Improved Dispersion Uniformity: The liquid medium facilitates uniform dispersion of carbon black throughout the formulation, ensuring consistent colour distribution and eliminating issues related to particle agglomeration.
- Enhanced Handling and Dosing Accuracy: Liquid dispersions are easier to handle and dose accurately compared to dry powders. This allows for precise colour control and reduces the risk of over- or under-dosing.
- Reduced Clean-Down Time and Costs: The minimised dusting and improved handling efficiency directly translate to reduced clean-down times and associated costs, leading to increased production uptime and cost savings.
- Improved Product Performance: Uniform dispersion of carbon black enhances product consistency, leading to improved colour performance and visual appeal.
- Reduced Waste: The ease of use reduces the waste of raw material.
- Reduced operator exposure: Dispersions limit the operator exposure to carbon black dust.
Applications:
Plant-Ex’s carbon black dispersions are suitable for a wide range of food and beverage applications where a deep, consistent black colour is required, including:
- Confectionery
- Bakery products
- Beverages
- Sauces and seasonings
By adopting our carbon black dispersions, manufacturers can significantly improve production efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product performance, while maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
Improve your production efficiency and reduce costs. Contact us to learn more about our carbon black dispersions.
Colour support services
Colour Services
Colour Blending
Unlock the perfect hue with our bespoke colour blending services, tailored specifically for your food or beverage project. We collaborate closely with our clients to craft custom shades that enhance product appeal, meet regulatory standards and maintain consistency within a range of different applications.
Shelf-life testing
Colour stability is essential to achieving a quality end product, and our NPD experts are on hand to ensure that your products look as good on the shelves as they do on the production line. From beverage to bakery, our team can test the stability of colours against challenges such as heat application and photo oxidation, and advise on the most suitable options for your application.
Colour matching
The key to successful colour matching lies in our advanced Colorimetry lab and Spectrophotometry, which precisely identify the target shade. This is followed by the application of our expertise, commitment and decades of industry experience to achieve an exact match. We carefully assess the customer’s application to confirm that the selected solution is the most appropriate.
Application support
If you need assistance with formulating innovative creations, our specialist applications team can assist you in bringing new ideas and concepts to life. We have access to the highest quality data from across the world of food & beverage, enabling us to provide accurate insights into future market trends, and design applications based on real world consumer behaviours.