Food dye

This Naturally Colored Buttercream Frosting is made with real ingredients to create five vibrant shades—no funky food coloring needed.

Discover the dangers of artificial food dyes and how you can make your own natural food coloring!

Make your own DIY natural holi powder from scratch with cornstarch and fruits & vegetables!

Red Lake 40, Whomst?

While natural colorants made from foods like beets are available, many manufacturers opt for synthetic dyes-which may have dangerous health consequences, particularly for children. Research has also associated food dyes with problems in children including allergies, hyperactivity, learning impairment, irritability and aggressiveness. The three most widely used culprits-Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Red 40-contain compounds, including benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, that research has linked with…

Learn about the dangers of artificial food colours and how to recognize them, plus a guide to creating natural food dyes with whole food ingredients.

Helpful for decorating sweet treats with natural food colors. They now make an orange color that produces anything from a pastel to a bright orange, so you dont have to blend. But I couldnt manage to pin that one.

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How to make natural dye using food from your kitchen. Simple and easy to do with things like red cabbage, black beans, turmeric, and coffee.

Dangers of food dyes

Rice dyed with food coloring is a safe and nontoxic alternative to colored sand and glitter. You can use it in craft projects and stick it together, if desired, with all-purpose glue or paste. This recipe yields approximately 4 ounces, or 1/2 cup, of dyed rice.

Blue Foods! Colorful Cooking Without Artificial Dyes: Blue is notoriously scarce in the palette of natural foods. And among foods that are called blue, few of them have a purely blue (not purplish or greenish) pigment. But with the scarcity of naturally blue foods, you have to take what you can get, s…

I knew you would love this frosting with natural food coloring, and that was as much a part of my motivation as my kids were.

Fun for all ages, these magical, color-changing food colorings are obtained naturally from foods with special pigments whose hue changes in different pH environments.

Natural food colorings originate from a wide range of sources like vegetables, fruits, plants, minerals, and other edible natural sources and they are perfect for coloring your recipes.