DIY Natural Food Coloring

Every so often a recipe calls for food coloring, but conventional food coloring is a no-no for IC. chickennugget therefore scoured the internet and found DIY natural food coloring and has graciously shared the information with us. Thank you chickennugget!! ((hugs))

Making your own all natural food dyes ---keep extra refrigerated for up to 4 weeks


Blue- red cabbage, 1/2 head cook covered with water. Use only the purple liquid. Add to a small cup of liquid, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and BAM! blue!

Orange- carrots, cooked/steamed until tender put with a bit of liquid in a food processor make mush. Strain mush to remove pulp and keep liquid.

Green- Spinach. Blanch this with a bit of water. Put in food processor and make mush. Strain mush and use liquid for coloring. You can try mint leaves too.

Purple- blueberries that are frozen with a bit of water (thawed out I assume?), make mush in processor, strain mush to remove pulp.

Yellow– Turmeric. A bit of water and a bit of turmeric, simmer and walla, yellow! Watch youtube video's on how to do this.

Red- Beets. You can use canned beets or cooked beets in liquid. Put in food processor make mush and strain out pulp, use liquid.

Pink- use beets as above but add less of the coloring.

You can use fresh, canned, or frozen veggies and fruits to make all kinds of natural food colorings. These are some idea's I found online and there are many youtube video's you can also watch. You may choose other natural foods and other methods. Just knowing you can make colorful foods with all natural food coloring can brighten up your life!

They say the food taste will NOT be effected by these natural food colors. I saw many more but NOT all were IC friendly to me.

Some of you that can use raspberries, blackberries, mangoes, You can go online and search how to make natural food coloring and you will find all kinds of great ways to use food to brighten up your food! :)

Let us know if any of you start using natural food colors in your baking! It can be used in rainbow cakes and many, many other recipes that call for food coloring.