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Flatbread dough turned red
As Joe mentioned, there was something acting as a litmus paper!
Turmeric placed in an alkaline solution will turn bright red!
quoted from: https://foodcrumbles.com/how-turmeric-gets-its-color/
Most ...
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Is the yellow skin of a raw chicken indicating that it has been dyed?
The skin is yellow probably because the chicken was fed with maize.
Age and race of the chicken are a factor, too.
In Germany (and propably Europe) you can explicitly buy „Maishähnchen“ that is fed ...
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Is the print on eggs safe for consumption?
This is an excerpt:
Regulatory compliance. Inks used for egg coding must comply with
government regulations governing food marking inks. These broadly state
that inks printed on food items ...
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Is the yellow skin of a raw chicken indicating that it has been dyed?
In the EU to call a chicken "corn chicken" you need to tick some boxes while growing it:
fodder must be AT LEAST 50% corn.
fodder cannot contain anything GMO-ed.
chicken must be free ranged ...
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Pink curing salt turned yellow - safe to use?
That's our brand "Home Curing UK" or "Surfy's".
The colouring used at that time was a natural colouring. Unfortunately the colour deteriorates over time due to the action of light ...
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Is synthetic astaxanthin (salmon "dye") safe?
Yes, the FDA has determined that astaxanthin is "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS), at 0.15 mg/serving. This doesn't indicate whether there are any health considerations associated with ...
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How can I color pasta during cooking or afterwards, preferably using natural coloring?
I tried boiling the noodles with colored water and it didn't change the color at all.
I made a corn starch slurry with cold water (approx 1/2 cup) and McCormick's Colors from Nature (red 2 tsp), ...
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Are Saffron Crocus petals edible?
It seems that the answer is yes...
The vast majority of the literature out there around saffron petals relates to the pharmacological compounds found in the petals. For normal use, the petals are ...
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Medium-rare sous vide steak - achieving coloring without slicing?
My observation for cooking steak sous-vide and avoiding this issue is as follows:
If I cook it in a complete vacuum, it really stays gray for a longer time. Cooking in a zip-loc bag helps me shorten ...
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Broad bean water went brown overnight
no, definitely not rust from the iron content in the beans, the amount of iron in Broad Beans is far too small for that. It is more likely the tannins from the beans.
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How to tint powdered sugar (icing sugar)?
I think i can help you here if anyone is interested. It's an easy process that costs almost nothing. No grinders are required.
The issue with using liquid colours is they cause the icing sugar to ...
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Medium-rare sous vide steak - achieving coloring without slicing?
There's a phenomenon called blooming that occurs with sous vide cooking. Basically the interior red/pink meat needs to be exposed to oxygen in order to take OB that rosy hue. So to answer your ...
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Are Saffron Crocus petals edible?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6251391/
The medical study above indicates the petals have signifigant effect similar to the stigma (threads).
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Halloween Special: Glow in the dark food
Use bioluminescence. Glow worms are edible and they are phosphorescent. You could make powder from organisms that have phosphorescence (glow worms). Crush them, sprinkle them on top of lollipops or ...
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Is the yellow skin of a raw chicken indicating that it has been dyed?
I was just in a butcher shop/carnicería in Puerto Vallarta with a Mexican guide who was telling us the chicken in Mexico is dyed yellow. She said even having lived in the US and Canada for years, she ...
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How to make vivid color candy with a small quantity of natural food coloring?
To the question in the title: you can't. Food coloring works just like any other dye or pigment. It consists of tiny colored particles, and the more particles you have in one place, the more intense ...
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How can i improve the strength/pigmentation of colours in my Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing
What you're trying is quite difficult, because buttercream is a foam, and foams are generally whitish due to the laws of physics.
The best you can do is to buy specialized food coloring meant for ...
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How can i improve the strength/pigmentation of colours in my Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing
Use an immersion blender after adding the food coloring and it will brighten the color! Takes time and patience, but works really well.
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Is synthetic astaxanthin (salmon "dye") safe?
According to a meta-study from 2014, there are no negative health effects associated with consumption of astaxanthin, even in doses more than 100X greater than what is found in salmon. This is true ...
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Pink curing salt turned yellow - safe to use?
Yes. The pink is a dye to distinguish it from regular table salt. So no worries about safety.
Here are two of the folks from America's Test Kitchen discussing it from 1:00 to 1:50.
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Is the yellow skin of a raw chicken indicating that it has been dyed?
As far as I know it would be illegal to literally dye the chicken but I am not an expert on Mexican food safety laws. However I can say that in the eu’s spanish market special feeds are formulated to ...
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How to avoid using artificial food coloring in cookie and cake decorating
If you want to avoid food colors (both natural and artificial additives;; thees with "E number") you can use natural food colors or in EU "coloring foods". There is a wide range of fruit and vegetable ...
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How to make striking glaze drizzle?
It’s cocoa butter and colour. Probably powdered colour for best results.
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Colored cake without food coloring?
Butterfly pea powder makes a great blue. Blue Spirulina does too but does not stand up to heat. You can also boil red cabbage and add baking soda for blue.
For red you can use red beet powder. There ...
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