用色素来给食物染色不是现代食品工业的创造——在中国,早就有用蔬菜汁来染色鸡蛋羹的做法。不过,合成色素的应用,确实是现代食品工业发展的结果。合成食品色素自从诞生那天起就充满了争议。许多人认为食品色素仅仅是改变颜色,只有“悦目”的作用,而事实并非如此。食物的颜色,会改变人们的味觉体验。现代食品技术中,有一个领域是 Dyeing foods to color is not a creation of the modern food industry - in China, there has long been a practice of using vegetable juices to dye egg custard. However, the application of synthetic pigments, is indeed the result of the development of modern food industry. Synthetic food color has been controversial since its birth. Many people think that food color is just changing color, only “pleasing”, which is not the case. The color of food will change people’s taste experience. One area in modern food technology is