The present invention aims to provide colored foods that retain their inherent good flavors and which yet feature suppressed fading of dyes. Provided are colored foods that contain rosmarinic acid and which are reduced in the contents of luteolin-3-glucuronide, carnosic acid, and carnosol.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a colored gloss pigment using a natural dye. According to the present disclosure, the method may include preparing a dye from a dye material of natural dyes; titrating the dye with an inorganic salt solution and subsequently adjusting a pH neutral to prepare a natural pigment containing the dye; dispersing a substrate coated with a metal oxide into a DI water to form a substrate suspension; and introducing a pH adjusting agent and the natural pigment into the substrate suspension to coat a surface of the substrate with the natural pigment.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a colored gloss pigment using a natural dye. According to the present disclosure, the method may include preparing a dye from a dye material of natural dyes; titrating the dye with an inorganic salt solution and subsequently adjusting a pH neutral to prepare a natural pigment containing the dye; dispersing a substrate coated with a metal oxide into a DI water to form a substrate suspension; and introducing a pH adjusting agent and the natural pigment into the substrate suspension to coat a surface of the substrate with the natural pigment.

Nanoparticles comprising surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) reporter molecules of the formula A-Y and methods of their use are disclosed, wherein A is: ##STR00001##
wherein X.sub.1 is CR.sub.4 or N; and Y is selected from the group consisting of: ##STR00002##

Nanoparticles comprising surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) reporter molecules of the formula A-Y and methods of their use are disclosed, wherein A is: ##STR00001##
wherein X.sub.1 is CR.sub.4 or N; and Y is selected from the group consisting of: ##STR00002##

A high-hydrophobic, low-bleeding color lake powder, a method for preparing the same and a use thereof are provided. A color lake powder is dispersed into water, and a pH value of a system is adjusted to a range of 4 to 5.5. Then surface treating agents such as a silane coupling agent, a titanate coupling agent, a hydrogenated lecithin and an aliphatic acid are used to modify the color lake powder. Then pulverizing and drying the resultant to obtain the modified color lake powder.

A high-hydrophobic, low-bleeding color lake powder, a method for preparing the same and a use thereof are provided. A color lake powder is dispersed into water, and a pH value of a system is adjusted to a range of 4 to 5.5. Then surface treating agents such as a silane coupling agent, a titanate coupling agent, a hydrogenated lecithin and an aliphatic acid are used to modify the color lake powder. Then pulverizing and drying the resultant to obtain the modified color lake powder.