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Natural Alternatives to Food Colorings

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Option #1: Stores such as Whole Foods Market sell Select natural food coloring (red shown above, made from black currants).

Option #2: If you google “Natural food colorings” you’ll get quite a few results, such as India Tree.

Option #3: Dynise, at The Urban Vegan, has a great post about making your own food colorings, and there are other similar articles if you google “homemade healthy food coloring.”

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  1. Sylvia says

    Hi! Have you ever tried beet juice? I am going to make your pancakes and try some and let you know, all of your recipes are soooo good!!!

    Thank you!
    Sylvia

  2. Sylvia says

    Hi! Have you ever tried beet juice? I am going to make your pancakes and try some and let you know, all of your recipes are soooo good!!!

    Thank you!
    Sylvia

  3. trajayjay says

    I made rainbow sheperd’s pie once

    I mixed the following juices with mashed potatoes to color them

    red: tomato juice (wouldve used beets, had i any)
    orange: carrot juice
    yellow: pinch o’ tumeric
    green: kale juice
    blue: cabbage juice plus baking soda (a base or alkali will react with cabbage juice to turn blue)
    purple: cabbage juice.

    so colorful but not a taste of each in the potatoes. Not sure how well it’d work for sweet baked goods. 🙁

    • gemma says

      hi just wondering if anyone has tried these juices/ food items as colourings for making play dough for children with allergies

      • trajayjay says

        Well, none of these items are common allergies. I’d be more concerned about the flour in the playdough. Wheat is a common allergen. So is gluten, well, it’s not really an allergy, but if any of the children swallow it, some ppl don’t process gluten well, so they might suffer.

      • trajayjay says

        Well, none of these items are common allergies. I’d be more concerned about the flour in the playdough. Wheat is a common allergen. So is gluten, well, it’s not really an allergy, but if any of the children swallow it, some ppl don’t process gluten well, so they might suffer.

    • gemma says

      hi just wondering if anyone has tried these juices/ food items as colourings for making play dough for children with allergies

  4. trajayjay says

    I made rainbow sheperd’s pie once

    I mixed the following juices with mashed potatoes to color them

    red: tomato juice (wouldve used beets, had i any)
    orange: carrot juice
    yellow: pinch o’ tumeric
    green: kale juice
    blue: cabbage juice plus baking soda (a base or alkali will react with cabbage juice to turn blue)
    purple: cabbage juice.

    so colorful but not a taste of each in the potatoes. Not sure how well it’d work for sweet baked goods. 🙁

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