The method developed was applied to food samples from
market control. The samples were prepared as described in Section
2.4. A fruit flavored drink (A), a fruit flavored liqueur (B),
a sample of icing sugar (C), three samples of sweets (D, E and
F) and a blackberry flavored jam (G) were analyzed, at least, in
duplicate and the results are summarized in Table 7. Data from
Tables 5 and 7 showthat 10 out of the 13 colorants were detected,
at least once. The concentrations of colorants in analyzed foodstuffs
ranged from 0.35 mg L−1 (E 110 in fruit flavoured drink) to
125 mg kg−1 (E 122 in fruit flavoured liqueur). The lowdetection
limits allowed the accurate determination of colorants in foods