Different colored food - would you eat it?

[zuben el genub]

Tasting With Our Eyes: Why Bright Blue Chicken Looks So Strange : The Salt : NPR

Years ago, no one would buy margarine as it looked like lard. The dairy industry forbid coloring it to look like butter. It was sold with packages of careenagen (I think) to color it yellow. My mother remembered doing this by mixing the additive in.

I think that kids would eat the pink cereal in the yellow milk.

 

[kate]

Some of these colors, like the blue on the chicken and the green on the corn, are latex paint.

Don't think I would each chicken marinated in latex paint :rofl:

It really depends on the food - unusually colored ice cream sure, colored meat... no.

 

[breadnatty08]

I've no problem with weird colored food if there's a purpose for it (and in most cases, done naturally). I mean black chicken is definitely creepy looking, but it's a legit animal.

 

[SiempreTuna]

I'm usually really disappointed with things like black chickens and purple carrots and spuds - the colour's only ever skin deep

And they taste exactly the same

Where's the fun in that?

 

[psionandy]

One of the few rules that has governed my life (since the age of 9) is to never drink anything blue.

 

[SiempreTuna]

With me it's more yellow and steaming

 

[Kaat72]

One of the few rules that has governed my life (since the age of 9) is to never drink anything blue.

During college I used to live in a dorm, where we shared refridgerators. Things I really liked to keep for myself I colored with a nice blue E-number. That worked pretty well indeed. :hahaha::hahaha:

 

[mrex]

I think that kids would eat the pink cereal in the yellow milk.

If i had kids and they would refuse to eat normal food, they could then starve. Sorry but i wouldnt feed my kids with colours... They would learn to eat healthy differenf kind if foods in the beginning... Anyway, nowadays there are many natural colours too, not only from bugs or artificial food colours.

I prefer plain looking but fresh food rather than odd colours.

 

[Dennis Edward]

It is better to feed kids without adding colors. If colored food is a must, then add natural colors. Natural color is derived from a plant or animal whereas an artificial color is that does not come from a plant or animal source.

Carotenoids are plant pigments which are responsible for bright red, yellow and orange shades in many fruits and vegetables. These pigments have an important role in plant health. People who eat foods containing carotenoids have protective health benefits as well. Carotenoids can be produced from red pepper, which is dried and then ground. Curcumin is a golden yellow pigment found in turmeric. Turmeric can be used in coloring and flavoring food which is a common practice. So You can use it for Natural food coloring. Turmeric has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect and is a strong antioxidant.

 

[Davdi]

Some time ago, my wife made Cannelloni stuffed with spinach and ricotta. So far so good. But... something went a bit wrong and the Cannelloni came out a very pretty Turquoise colour.
Somehow we just didn't want to eat it.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Alfred Hitchcock did it 1st.

 

[bcrichster]

One of the few rules that has governed my life (since the age of 9) is to never drink anything blue.

Lmmfao! ..what happened?

 

[Milo Willamson]

It does not bother me one bit.
Unless someone over dosage on spices ontop of it.