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From health and technological perspectives, the use of natural pigments for food coloring is preferred, although natural pigments are more complex and expensive to produce than synthetics. As a consequence, the technological improvements for extraction and formulation of natural colorants with applications to the food product industry compete with earlier developments of synthetic colors.