BROWN ANTHOCYANIN-CONTAINING COLORANT Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A23G3/32 A23G3/42 A23L5/43 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the food and confectionery industry. Method of hard pan coating an edible core comprises mixing a purple carrot anthocyanin-containing colorant with water to form an aqueous colorant solution. Further, method comprises adjusting the pH of the aqueous colorant solution to about 5 to about 7, and, optionally, reducing the water content of the solution to form pH-adjusted colorant. Said pH-adjusted colorant is mixed with a sucrose-based syrup to form a colored sucrose-based syrup. Yellow colorant is mixed with one or more constituents and mixtures of said steps such that the yellow colorant is incorporated into the colored sucrose-based syrup. Said colored sucrose-based syrup is applied to an edible core to provide at least one layer of a hard panned coating. Invention relates to a sucrose-based, hard panned coating, which contains sucrose and pH-adjusted purple carrot anthocyanin-containing colorant, wherein the coating is substantially crystalline and has a brown hue described by a CIELCH color space h° coordinate from about 0° to about 70°. Invention relates to a hard panned confection comprising an edible core coated with a sucrose-based, hard panned coating. To provide alternatives to synthetic colorants for coloring brown color tones of a hard panned confectionery coating, the colorant is preferably natural.

EFFECT: production of said colorants avoids the need to adjust the pH of the colored syrup to make it suitable for hard panning.

15 cl, 3 tbl, 3 ex