Jinan Pingyin County Wentai Food Additives Co., Ltd.

Jinan Pingyin County Wentai Food Additives makes caramel colour, and that single line is the whole of its business. Caramel colour is the burnt sugar colouring used to darken soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, braising and barbecue sauces, cola type soft drinks, beer and confectionery, and it is sorted by caramel class, colour strength and ionic charge, which govern what a formulator can mix it with.

The company was founded in 1992 in Pingyin County, west of Jinan in Shandong, and is privately owned. It has worked on caramel colour for more than thirty years and covers raw material buying, development, production and sales itself.