Sensory properties of hard candy and sweet jelly prepared with
adding different levels from anthocyanins pigment of purple
carrots as natural colorants compared with control prepared
with 0.10% synthetic red color (carmine) are given in Table
9. Analysis of variance showed no significant differences in
color for both hard candy prepared by adding 0.30% anthocyanins
pigment of purple carrots and sweet jelly contained
0.20% natural red color (purple carrots anthocyanin) and control
with 0.10% carmine, while hard candy and sweet jelly prepared
with 0.5% recorded the lowest score in color scores.
Meanwhile, there is little significant difference in taste and
odor scores of hard candy and sweet jelly prepared with adding
different levels of anthocyanins pigment form purple carrots
and control with 0.10% carmine. On the other hand, hard
candy prepared by adding 0.305 and sweet jelly 0.20% anthocyanins
pigment of purple carrots recorded the highest scores
for tested parameters and came in the first order and equal
with control followed by hand candy contains 0.40% and
sweet jelly contains 030%. However, both hard candy that
contains 0.10% and sweet jelly that contains 0.10 and 0.50%
anthocyanins pigment of purple carrots were inferior than
other tested samples recorded slightly significant differences
compared with other samples.