[Sca-cooks] blue food coloring

[Daniel Myers]

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 10:31 AM, jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>>
>> Just a note on this.  I believe that alkanet is red, and it also is
>> not
>> food safe.
>
> This is the information I turned up in looking into alkanet for my egg
> dye
> project:
> " Alkanet can be hepatoxic in large quantities, but was FDA approved
> for
> coloring sausage skins in 1999, so it is probably safe on eggs as long
> as
> you're not eating alkanet colored eggs every day for months!"

Cool!  Thanks!

- Doc (now looking for the catalog he had that listed alkanet)


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