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Uses: Typical products that include Chlorophyll's are soaps, preserved fruits and vegetables, sweets, soups, ice cream, sauce mixes. Excess can cause a sensitivity to light.
Safe
Description: Chlorophyll's are the green colour occurs naturally in the cells of all plants and responsible for photosynthesis. A fairly unstable dye, which tends to fade easily.
Not easy to obtain in a pure form and commercially available chlorophyll usually contains other plant material impurities.
The usual sources are nettles, spinach and grass with the chlorophyll being extracted using acetone, ethanol, light petroleum, methylethylketone and diachloromethane. Lutein, may be extracted at the same time.
E140 Chlorophyll's/Chlorophyllins