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Indigo Carmine

A blue dye obtained by sulfonating indigo: it is the food additive E132 and, injected into a vein, it helps surgeons highlight the urinary tract. In the United States it has been approved for medical use since 2022. This family brings together the active ingredient, nitrosamines and other impurities.

Did you know?It is one of the few blue food colourings and also a pH indicator: in solution it is blue at pH 11.4 and turns yellow at pH 13.

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