Recipes
Natural colours (home-made)
Blend some chopped cabbage leaf with water. The cabbage colours can be stabilised by microwaving to hot but still taste of cabbage. Cabbage juice and saffron are permitted. Beetroot juice is easy to use but has an earthy taste. Beetroots contain some salicylates so there could be salicylate problems in extra-sensitive children.
Purple: red cabbage juice
Blue: dilute red cabbage juice with extra water
Deep blue: red cabbage juice with sodium bicarbonate
Pale blue: cabbage juice with sodium bicarbonate
Bright red: red cabbage juice with pinch citric acid
Pink: beetroot juice, or cabbage juice with citric acid
Yellow: saffron
thanks to Dana of facebook group for this photo
see story [1113] and thanks to Claire