Food Colour Red
For Those Who Live to Cook
Sweets Tandoori Bold
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About This Product

Rich red food colour that enhances cakes, sweets, and desserts with a bold and vibrant finish for eye-catching festive creations.


Suitable For
Vegan Vegetarian For Cooking & Baking Concentrated

Food Colour Red
For Those Who Live to Cook
Sweets Tandoori Bold
Size

About This Product

Rich red food colour that enhances cakes, sweets, and desserts with a bold and vibrant finish for eye-catching festive creations.


Suitable For
Vegan Vegetarian For Cooking & Baking Concentrated
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (Per 100g)
Energy (kcal) 350 kcal
Protein 0 g
Carbohydrates 90 g
Sugars 80 g
Fat 0 g
Saturates 0 g
Fibre 0 g
Sodium 50 mg
The Story Of Food Colour Red

Red food colouring is one of the most widely used and versatile of all food colorants — a bold, intense hue that has been employed across baking, confectionery, and food manufacturing for generations to create visually striking, appetising products across an enormous range of culinary applications. Lioncroft's Food Colour Red is a concentrated powder formulation that delivers a vivid, true red colour with minimal quantity required, dissolving easily in water and blending cleanly into icings, batters, doughs, sauces, and confectionery preparations. The 400g catering format ensures sufficient quantity for professional food production environments.

Red food colouring is the essential ingredient in the celebrated Red Velvet Cake — one of the most fashionable and visually dramatic bakes of the modern era — as well as in the production of red-hued maraschino cherries, red velvet cookies, strawberry and cherry-flavoured confectionery, and the striking red sauces and condiments that benefit from enhanced colour for visual impact. In Indian cooking, red food colouring has historically been used in the production of certain tandoori and tikka preparations to achieve the characteristically vivid red colour associated with these dishes, as well as in the colouring of festive sweets and mithai where a bold, celebratory colour is desired. For sugar confectionery manufacturers, icing producers, and celebration cake decorators, a reliable, intense, stable red colourant is an indispensable technical ingredient. Lioncroft's Food Colour Red delivers the consistent, bold red performance that professional food production demands.

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Tips on cooking

Convenient and ready straight from the pack — blends into marinades, rubs, stews, drinks and sauces across every cuisine.

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Give tandoori and tikka that classic red finish.
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Tint sweets, syrups and icing.
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Colour velvet cakes and bakes.
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Brighten festive rice and drinks.
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Expert tip: A drop goes a long way with red — build it up gradually, since it's the easiest colour to overdo into something garish.
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