| Color |
Natural Green |
| Source |
nettles, grass and alfalfa, algae |
| Applications |
Medicines, processed food , vegetable
oils |
It is a synthetic copper complex of chlorophyll and has a natural green
colour, which is present in all plants and algae. It is commercially
extracted from nettles, grass and alfalfa. Due to chemical de-esterification
of chlorophyll, phaeophytins are formed. The magnesium in the chlorophyll is
replaced by copper in an acid bath which gives a safer copper chlorophyll.