Beta-apo-8′-carotenal (E160e)

Names on a label

• E160e
• E 160e
• Beta-apo-8′-carotenal

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

What it’s used for

The FDA lists these uses in food: color or coloring adjunct.¹

What regulators and scientists say

• EFSA set an acceptable daily intake of 0.3 mg per kilogram of body weight per day (December 3, 2013). For a 70 kg (154 lb) adult, that’s about 21 mg a day.²
• The FDA permits it as a color additive by regulation (21 CFR 73.90).¹

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