GARDENIA BLUE PIGMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME

摘要

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gardenia blue pigment which offers a bright, fresh blue color tone having reduced redness, and a production method for the same.　The gardenia blue pigment which offers a bright, fresh blue color tone having reduced redness is obtained by carrying out a first step in which genipin and at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of soybean peptides, sesame peptides, and rice peptides are reacted in a solvent without the presence of an oxygen-containing gas supply, and a second step in which a reaction liquid obtained in the first step is processed under an oxygen-containing gas supply.