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What Natural Product Can I Use Instead of Food Coloring?
For individuals wishing to eat all-natural foods, baking with food coloring can be a challenge. You can color your cooking using natural foods that contain dyes. These dyes will tint the food in place of food coloring. Add this to my Recipe Box.
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Examples
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Avocados may be used to make natural dyes more pastel. Most fruits and vegetables contain natural pigments, that give the foods their color. Examples of these pigments include red dye in beets, blue in blueberries and yellow in turmeric. You can make these shades more pastel by adding avocado.
Drawbacks
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Colors made from vegetables may not be as bright or mix as well as food coloring made from artificial colors. Food coloring made from vegetables may add unwanted flavors.
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Prevention/Solution
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Making your own natural food coloring can take time and can be messy. To avoid this, you can purchase natural, organic food coloring from natural food health stores.
Warning
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Because natural food coloring is made from plants, those with plant allergies should read labels carefully before using these dyes.
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- Photo Credit early red beets and young beet leaves image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com avocado in avocado püree image by Lucky Dragon from Fotolia.com
