Color stable food containing anthocyanic pigments and bio-available vitamin C and process for its production

摘要

A novel color-stable food product containing anthocyanin or anthocyanidin pigments and containing bio-available vitamin C. The novel food may be produced as the product of an improved food production process wherein the improvement comprises providing the bioavailable vitamin C in the form of an enolic OH substituted derivative of ascorbic acid selected from the group consisting of inorganic esters, aliphatic or alicyclic esters, and O-alkyl ethers of ascorbic acid.