Food additives
What the E numbers on our product pages mean.
Yellow colour. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Greenish yellow colour. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Orange colour, also called orange yellow S. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Red colour tending to purple. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Strawberry red colour. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Red colour. It is one of the six listed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, so foods containing it must say that it may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Why some of them carry a warning
Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 lists six colours: E102, E104, E110, E122, E124 and E129. Foods containing them must state, next to the name or E number of the colour, that it «may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children». They are authorised additives: the mention is a labelling duty, not a safety alert.