How to make food coloring from vegetables, tubers and fruits at home, ensuring safety for health

Of course, brightly colored foods and drinks will easily “stimulate” people to see. Health issues are getting more and more attention, so natural food coloring is popular due to its safety and ability to color as beautifully as ordinary food coloring. Above all, they also bring high nutritional value from these natural vegetables, tubers and fruits.

According to Thanh Nien online newspaper, “most phytonutrients have powerful antioxidant roles and protect against diseases such as cancer, degenerative diseases and cardiovascular diseases”. Therefore, make and use natural food coloring right away.

Orange red (Gac)

You cut the gac fruit in half (horizontally), then take the intestines into a bowl with 2 tablespoons of white wine , mix well and soak for about 15 minutes . Then, use your hands to gently squeeze to separate the meat, remove the seeds. So it’s red.

Purple (Purple Cabbage)

First, separate each part of the leaves, then soak them in a bowl of water mixed with a tablespoon of salt for about 15 minutes . When finished, cut it into small pieces, then put it in a blender with 300ml of water . Then, grind it finely and filter the mixture through a sieve . The water recovered will be purple.

Green (Pineapple Leaf)

Cut pandan leaves into small pieces, then put in a blender with 150ml of water . Similar to making purple, we will puree the mixture, then filter it through a sieve . Take the water to make it green.

Orange (Carrot)

Peel the carrots, then cut them into thin slices . When finished, put it in a blender with 150ml of water . Continue to puree the mixture, filter it through a sieve and keep the water to have an orange color.

Deep Rose Red (Beets)

Peel the beetroot and cut it into thin slices. Then, put beets with 200ml of water in a blender, puree the mixture . Then, filter through a sieve and take the water to make it a dark pink color.

Yellow (Pumpkin)

Similar to the above method, first peel the pumpkin, then cut it into thin slices . Then, put the pumpkin in a blender with 150ml of water . Blend until the mixture is smooth, then filter it through a sieve, keeping the water to make it yellow.

Blue

From the purple color of the cabbage, you can halve it (or whatever you want) to another bowl. When done , dissolve 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a cup of purple water . So we have blue.

Each color from vegetables, tubers and fruits is very eye-catching and fresh, not inferior to industrial food colors. The above ingredients have a not-so-specific taste: sweet, sour, bitter, … (seemingly tasteless) so it’s easy to use to prepare food or drink.

Let’s go to the kitchen with lassho.edu.vn to “make” food colors from vegetables, tubers and fruits. Guaranteed to make you fall in love with it because the colors are so vibrant and fragrant. You can store it in a glass jar and keep it in the fridge for later use.

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Come to the nearest GREEN Bach Hoa to buy delicious fresh vegetables for food coloring.

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