Information AboutSunset Yellow |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SUNSET YELLOW | |
| food colorings | |
| azo dyes | |
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Sunset Yellow is an Azo Dye used as artificial Food Colouring with E Number E110, and in drugs and cosmetics. It is also known as A.F. Yellow #5, Acid Yellow tra, Sunset Yellow FCF, Certolake Sunset Yellow, C.I. Food Yellow 3, Edicol Supra Yellow FC, C.I. 53907, Orange Pal, Sun Yellow, 1351 Yellow, 1899 Yellow, and Yellow Sun. It has the appearance of orange-red crystallic powder, decomposing at about 390 °C, well-soluble in water (50-100 mg/ml at 24 °C). Sunset Yellow is a disodium salt of 1-p-sulfophenylazo-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid. Sunset Yellow is a sulfonated version of Sudan I , which is frequently present in it as an impurity. Products which contain Sunset Yellow: |
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