[Sca-cooks] Article: Feasting with Food Allergies

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

> > I mean, look at beets. I don't imagine a lot of processing would be
> > required to turn beet juice into plain ol' red coloring.
>
> I wouldn't either, normally, but the experiences of dyeing 5 dozen eggs in
> beet juice this spring makes me wonder.
>
I have several (ok, lots) of canisters of CountryTime fruit/lemonade mix
that is colored with beet extract. They've since changed the formula to
use regular red dye #40, so I'm hoarding. [Mine! Mine! All mine!] At least
one of the Celestial Seasonings throat drops formulas uses elderberry
extract, and something else I recently read the label of uses cochineal
(yes, the bug dye) extract.