“…Due to the potential toxicity and harmful effects of indigo carmine on the ecosystem and biodiversity, its presence and concentration must be reliably determined. Different methods have been proposed to identify and quantify indigo carmine in wide-range samples, based mainly on UV/Vis spectrometry [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ], electrochemical techniques [ 19 , 20 , 21 ], chromatography [ 22 , 23 , 24 ], FTIR spectroscopy [ 12 , 25 ], as well as advanced digital imaging techniques [ 26 , 27 ]. Understandably, all of these techniques have different sensitivity and accuracy of indigo carmine detection mainly depending on sample nature (to be more precise on its matrix).…”