Survery on Actual Conditions of Food Dyes

埼玉県越谷市Many food dyes are widely used as food additives in Japan, and many investigations have been pointed the problems of safety of these food dyes used in Japanese food. There are two types of commercial food dyes, one is synthetic dyes and the other is natural dyes. Recently Japanese food is not stained so colourfully, but it is stained faintly in colour near to natural food by using of mixed synthetic dyes. On their hand, many consumers have a tendency to prefer natural food dyes because they have much more doubt on safety of synthetic food dyes. Many natural food such as Carminic acid, Monascoruburin, Laccaic acid and Crocin extracted from natural materials are widely used as safe food additives. Natural food dyes are not controlled unlike synthetic food dyes present, althogh the safety of them is not yet confirmed. In this paper, also these problems are discussed in relation to consumer's social attitudes