The present invention aims to provide colored foods that retain their inherent good flavors and which yet feature suppressed fading of dyes. Provided are colored foods that contain rosmarinic acid and which are reduced in the contents of luteolin-3'-glucuronide, carnosic acid, and carnosol.本發明的課題為,提供一種保持食品原本的良好香味,且抑制食品色素褪色的著色食品。本發明提供一種包含迷迭香酸、且減低鼠尾草酸、鼠尾草醇、及葉黃酮-3’-葡萄糖醛酸苷之含量的著色食品。