“…In contrast, AR and ER are used widely in the food industry to produce soft drinks, candies, and children’s medications. In Figure A, the Raman spectral signals of ER appear at 1335, 1577, and 1616 cm –1 , ascribed to in-plane C–C deformation of the xanthene ring, the benzene ring doublet stretching mode, and the asymmetrical COO– stretching vibrational mode, respectively . The spectrum of AR featured characteristic signals at 490, 753, 1272, 1409, 1496, and 1581 cm –1 (Figure B), which are ascribed to O–S wagging, aromatic ring wagging, O–C stretching, H–C–H rocking, C–H wagging, and asymmetric stretching of the aromatic ring, respectively .…”