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Colours of food and drink

Colour added to what is eaten and drunk.

#DC143C Crimson A deep red with a hint of purple, once made from insectsNamed shade · 🇳🇵 Nepal

#FA5053 Strawberry A bright red colour inspired by the ripe strawberry fruitNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +4

Red Wine colour The range of colours seen in wines, from pale yellow to deep red and tawnyNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France

Brown Caramel A golden-brown colour and sweet made by heating sugar until it brownsNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +2 #D99058 Persian orange A warm orange seen in Persian carpets and on Allis-Chalmers tractorsNamed shade · 🇮🇷 Iran

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Strawberry: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Caramel: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Wine colour: Mick Stephenson mixpix 20:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Crimson: F ASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

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