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Colours of food and drink

Colour added to what is eaten and drunk.

#FF0000 Red A primary colour seen in light, pigment, and tradition worldwideBasic colour · 🇺🇸 United States +5

Orange Sunset yellow FCF A synthetic orange-yellow dye used in food, cosmetics, and medicinesDye · 🇺🇸 United States +1

Red Carmoisine A synthetic red dye used in foods and medicines in the EUDye Red Erythrosine A bright red-pink synthetic dye used in food, cosmetics, and industryDye · 🇺🇸 United States +4 Yellow Quinoline Yellow WS A greenish yellow synthetic dye used in foods, drinks, medicines and cosmeticsDye · 🇦🇺 Australia +1 Black Brilliant Black BN A synthetic black dye used in foods and decorations, known as E151 in EuropeDye · 🇺🇸 United States +2 Red Scarlet GN A synthetic red azo dye once used in foods and now mainly in cosmeticsDye · 🇺🇸 United States +4

Photo credits on this page

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

Red: Sander van der Wel, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Sunset yellow FCF: MarinaVladivostok, CC0, source
Carmoisine: MarinaVladivostok, CC0, source

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