Green - lettuce, celery, spinach
Orange - yams, carrots
Purple - eggplant
Red - tomatoes
Yellow - tomatoes, squash, ripe bananas
artificial flavourings e.g
black - squid ink
green- seaweed
which is also mixed with an alumium pigment
vat dyes acid dyes
there's indigo dye
Now, synthetic dyes are still used for dying fabrics, but they are also used for paper, food, clothes and yarn.
There are may types of dyes but these are the ones I know of. Acid dyes Azoic dyes Basic dyes Chrome dyes Mordant Developed dyes Direct dyes Disperse dyes Reactive dyes Sulphur dyes Vat dyes Raw fibres Velour cloth and furs Batik Tie dyeing BY MAX TURNER
Rf value to compare the "unknown" components of colored candy dyes with the "known" components of food coloring dyes.
the first dye ever used was the litigation dye in BC times
clothing mugs mood rings
Rf value to compare the "unknown" components of colored candy dyes with the "known" components of food coloring dyes.
chromatography :)
Food coloring: made from non-toxic plant dyes. Usually, $1.39 per 2 oz. bottle. (2007) Other dyes can be used for decorative eggs, BUT not for eggs for human/ animal consumption.
in ancient Mexico they used the red chocineal beetle grounded down by hand. Now a days we use synthetic dyes, or natural dyes, but not for red food colouring. Pandan is naturally used as green food coloring and Butterfly pea for blue food dye. :)
Food dyes are used to give M&M's their colors.