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Wondering how to liven up baked treats and other dishes with a bright blue color? Buying artificial blue food coloring is always an option, but you can also make your own homemade food coloring for a healthier, natural alternative. All you need is red cabbage and a bit of baking soda to create blue food coloring for icing, cocktails, art projects, and more. We’ll show you how in this complete guide on how to make blue food coloring.
Ingredients
- 1 head of red cabbage
- 8 cups (1.9 L) of water
- ½ teaspoon (2.4 g) of baking soda
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QuestionWill the food coloring make food taste unpleasant?QamarTop AnswererDye is collected from the purple cabbage, so it doesn't have much of a flavor to it. It's mostly a coloring tool that can change the appearance of your food.
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Questioncan we add the some food coloring to edible condensed milk slime.Nihal ShettyCommunity AnswerDefinitely! This food coloring would work great with condensed milk. Enjoy using it!
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Tips
- Baking soda decomposes when exposed to heat. [14] X Research source This means that it’s best to only use this food coloring on cool items, or after you’ve already baked something.Thanks
- To make purple food coloring, reduce the cabbage water and don’t add the baking soda. You'll be left with a concentrated purple color that you can use to make foods purple.Thanks
- To make a homemade red food coloring, add something acidic, like lemon juice, to the reduced purple cabbage water instead of baking soda.Thanks
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References
- ↑ https://www.science.org/content/article/pigment-red-cabbage-could-help-turn-your-favorite-foods-blue/
- ↑ https://beta.nsf.gov/news/new-natural-blue-food-coloring-red-cabbage
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ewYN063hs
- ↑ http://www.sewhistorically.com/homemade-natural-blue-food-coloring-with-red-cabbage/
- ↑ http://www.anediblemosaic.com/how-to-make-natural-purple-teal-blue-green-fuchsia-purple-pink-food-colorings-using-the-red-cabbage-method-the-blueberry-method/
- ↑ https://tiffanymakes.com/food-coloring-red-cabbage/
- ↑ https://www.yourdailyvegan.com/2016/03/homemade-vegan-food-coloring/
- ↑ https://tiffanymakes.com/food-coloring-red-cabbage/
- ↑ https://www.yourdailyvegan.com/2016/03/homemade-vegan-food-coloring/
- ↑ https://www.feastingonfruit.com/natural-blue-food-coloring/
- ↑ https://www.yourdailyvegan.com/2016/03/homemade-vegan-food-coloring/
- ↑ https://www.anediblemosaic.com/how-to-make-natural-purple-teal-blue-green-fuchsia-purple-pink-food-colorings-using-the-red-cabbage-method-the-blueberry-method/
- ↑ https://www.yourdailyvegan.com/2016/03/homemade-vegan-food-coloring/
- ↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vanishing-baking-soda/
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