Replacing Artificial Colors for Candy Companies
Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5, Titanium Dioxide – each has a natural color replacement, and which one works comes down to your processing temperature, pH and shelf life. Tell us your process and target shade, and our color team will find the right one for you.
Our Color Solutions
Black Carrot
The first choice for replacing Red 40 and Red 3, from bright red through pink and purple in candy applications.
Grown across central Anatolia, Turkey, it delivers clean color across the acid range with strong heat and light stability.
Black Carrot
The first choice for replacing Red 40 and Red 3, from bright red through pink and purple in candy applications.
Grown across central Anatolia, Turkey, it delivers clean color across the acid range with strong heat and light stability.
Beet
Where Red 3 comes out, beet goes in – soft pink through cool red and purple.
Stable across a wide pH range, it holds its shade in dairy, frozen desserts, fillings and icings.
Beet
Where Red 3 comes out, beet goes in – soft pink through cool red and purple.
Stable across a wide pH range, it holds its shade in dairy, frozen desserts, fillings and icings.
Turmeric
The brightest replacement for Yellow 5 and 6, covering lemon yellow through deep golden orange.
It delivers clean color across the pH range with strong stability through high heat.
Paprika
From warm golden orange through deep orange-red, paprika is the natural replacement for Yellow 6 and artificial orange blends.
Built on capsanthin and capsorubin, it holds its shade regardless of pH and carries strong light stability.
Paprika
From warm golden orange through deep orange-red, paprika is the natural replacement for Yellow 6 and artificial orange blends.
Built on capsanthin and capsorubin, it holds its shade regardless of pH and carries strong light stability.
Spirulina
The established route off Blue 1 and 2, covering bright cyan through soft sky in candy applications.
Supplied as a standardized phycocyanin extract, it holds a true blue in neutral systems and blends with turmeric to create a natural green.
Gardenia
The heat- and acid-stable blue, from vivid royal through deep indigo.
Produced by enzymatic conversion of gardenia genipin, it replaces Blue 1 and 2 in low-pH and high-temperature systems.
Gardenia
The heat- and acid-stable blue, from vivid royal through deep indigo.
Produced by enzymatic conversion of gardenia genipin, Gardenia replaces Blue 1 and 2 in low-pH and high-temperature systems.
Turmeric+Spirulina Blend
The natural replacement for Green 3 and artificial yellow-blue blends.
Spirulina blue combined with yellow from turmeric is matched to your target shade, from fresh bright green to deep rich green.
Roasted Barley
The natural brown, from warm amber through deep brown in candy applications.
Made from roasted barley, it takes caramel color and artificial brown blends off the label while holding stable color across the pH range with strong heat and light stability.
Roasted Barley
The natural brown, from warm amber through deep brown in candy applications.
Made from roasted barley, it takes caramel color and artificial brown blends off the label while holding stable color across the pH range with strong heat and light stability.
Roasted Corn
The gluten-free brown, from golden amber through rich brown.
Made from roasted corn, it replaces caramel color and artificial brown blends while holding shade across the pH range with strong heat and light stability.
Chapter Natural Black
Plant-based black, grey through to true black in candy applications.
Built on beet, roasted malt and spirulina, it holds full depth at high dosage and delivers clean greys at lower.
Chapter Natural Black
Plant-based black, grey through to true black in candy applications.
Built on beet, roasted malt and spirulina, it holds full depth at high dosage and delivers clean greys at lower.
Cuttlefish Ink
Grey through true black in candy applications, from a traditional marine source.
Cuttlefish ink replaces caramel color and artificial blends, holding even color across the pH range with strong heat and light stability.
Chapter Natural White
White without titanium dioxide, for panned coatings, icings and coated gums.
It delivers the coverage a shell needs, and works as the base under every pastel in the range, staying stable across the pH range and through heat.
Chapter Natural White
White without titanium dioxide, for panned coatings, icings and coated gums.
It delivers the coverage a shell needs, and works as the base under every pastel in the range, staying stable across the pH range and through heat.
Picking the right natural color is half the work. The other half is getting it consistently — these are crops, with harvest windows that don't match a production schedule. We cover both, matching the color to your process and keeping supply steady as your volumes grow, so you're not managing stockouts on top of a reformulation.
Testimonials
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Ashley Waldman
Chapter Foods connected us with excellent manufacturing partners and helped clear bottlenecks across the process from sourcing key ingredients to securing packaging suppliers. They’re fast, reliable, and highly recommended.
Peter Gialantzis
I highly recommend Chapter Foods. When we were in urgent need of a scarce ingredient to meet a large customer commitment, they were able to supply us swiftly and efficiently. The communication and customer service level was well above standard, and the quality of the ingredient exceeded our expectations. It is a pleasure working with them and I feel they set the standard when it comes to customer service and quality.
Sam
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