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Notes: This paper discusses some factors that influence the acceptability of colour in a given food (processing and cultural, geographical and sociological aspects of the population), the regulations on "colour additives", and sources of natural food colourants (annatto, betalains, crocetin, gardenia blue, lutein, cochineal, and pigment-producing bacteria, fungi, yeasts and algae).