The substance they used was the common food dye known as tartrazine, which also goes by the names of Yellow 5 and E102 when it is used in food (like Doritos), cosmetics, and drugs. By rubbing the ...

Tartrazine (also known as tartracine) as a coloring appears on product labels with the code E102 (European Union). 2. Processed Foods These include items like potato chips, sausages, salamis ...

The synthetic dye used, called tartrazine, absorbs long-wave ultraviolet light (UV-A) and blue light. Red and orange-coloured light can penetrate the tissue. The researchers said the dye can be ...

Dr. Zihao Ou, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Dallas, holds a vial of the common yellow food coloring tartrazine in solution. In an article published in Science ...