Lycopene (E160d)

Names on a label

• E160d
• E 160d
• Lycopene
• CI 75125

Labels outside Europe often print the number on its own, without the E.

What regulators and scientists say

• EFSA set an acceptable daily intake of 0.5 mg per kilogram of body weight per day (December 9, 2014). For a 70 kg (154 lb) adult, that’s about 35 mg a day.¹
• The FDA permits it as a color additive by regulation (21 CFR 73.585).²

An acceptable daily intake is, in EFSA’s words, “an estimate of the amount of a substance in food or drinking water that can be consumed daily over a lifetime without presenting an appreciable risk to health.”³