[Sca-cooks] Weird Colored Food -- OP

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Try it at home with red cabbage!

http://www.doscience.com/act_archive/home_activities/cabbage_juice/cabbage_juice2.html

Bill Fisher wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:27:18 -0500, a5foil <a5foil at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>>I have a question for Adamantius, and anyone else who deals with food
>>turning strange colors --
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>>Kate was making cranberry relish Monday night and decided to see what would
>>happen if she put it in cookies. The cookies taste great but are this weird
>>shade of blue-green. Can anyone figure out what might have caused this?
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>>What is in the relish: cranberries, orange peel, orange pulp, sugar, Grand
>>Marnier.
>>What is in the cookies, besides the relish: soy margarine, brown and white
>>sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, orange extract, pecans. (That's right, no
>>eggs.)
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>>The first batch had chocolate chips instead of pecans. The relish was still
>>slightly frozen when she added it, and the color wasn't quite as weird.
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>>Cynara
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>Probably the baking soda reacting with the acids.
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>Cadoc
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