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Public awareness to assess a healthy and safe food products is low. Therefore unhealthy and unsafe food product is still easily found and distributed, especially in traditional market. Food additives, i.e. synthetic colorants and sweetener, are widely applied in food due to its colour stability, attractive in colours, and cheaper. Therefore, a survey and determination of illegal reds colorants, rhodamine and amaranth, are conducted particularly in ketchup and crackers in Sukolilo Area of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia as well as three legal reds colorants red allure, erythrosine, and ponceau 4R. Seven traditional markets at Sukolilo, a high density of population district at East Surabaya area ca. 4227 person/km2 (total area 23.69 km2), Keputih, Gebang Putih, Menur Pumpungan, Nginden Jangkungan, Semolowaru, Klampis Ngasem, and Medokan Semampir, were sampled. Instead ketchup and crackers, beverages and traditional cakes are also classified containing reds colorant. However none of those are found at Medokan Semampir Traditional Market. They are 38 samples were collected from six traditional markets at Sukolilo district: ketchup 31.58%, crakers 5.26%, beverages 23.68%, traditional cakes 28.95% while the rest is classified as other, i.e. seasonings and sausages. Unfortunately, all the collected samples contains both rhodamine and amaranth in various concentration ca. 0.106-283 ppm. Red allure, erythrosine, and ponceau 4R, were also detected in all samples. Thirty nine percent of the samples contains red allure, erythrosine, or ponceau 4R upper the maximum allowable concentration, ca. 300 mg/kg, though 34% of them are legally registered, having either MD or PIRT registration number.