Preliminaries; Contents; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The perception and sensory assessment of colour; 3 Colour measurement of food principles and practice; 5 Colour measurement of foods by colour reflectance; 6 Colour sorting for the bulk food industry; 7 The chemistry of food colour; 8 Colour stability in vegetables; 9 Modelling colour stability in meat; 10 Analysing changes in fruit pigments; 11 Improving natural pigments by genetic modification of crop plants; 12 Food colorings; 13 Developments in natural colourings; 14 Calibrated colour imaging analysis of food; Index;