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Since ancient times, people have known to extract colors in natural vegetables and fruits to increase the attractiveness of dishes. Especially the traditional Vietnamese cakes such as su su, rice cake, sticky rice, little cake, cast cake ... These monotonous dishes will be beautified thanks to the skillful hands of housewives. Nowadays, a variety of food coloring products are born and are widely used in everyday food processing as well as in the food processing industry. There are two types of food coloring matter: natural and artificial colorants.

Artificial pigments, although they have superior advantages over natural colorants, contain many harmful substances, so that natural colorants are always recommended to use instead of artificial colors.

1. Why choose natural food color?

Natural colorants are extracted or processed entirely from natural ingredients such as vegetables, roots and fruits. In addition to its use to help the dish become more beautiful and attractive, the natural coloring product is also recognized to increase the nutritional value of the dish.

Some natural colors such as:

- Green is extracted from the leaves of pineapple, rattan, bamboo, chrysanthemum, leafy vegetables ...

- Red, orange, and yellow colors are extracted from Gac fruit, turmeric, beetroot, cashew nuts, gardenia ...

- Brown color is extracted from coffee, cocoa or refined sugar.

- Purple color is taken from the leaves.

- Black color is extracted from the hemp leaves ...

Because they are completely extracted from natural ingredients that are also vegetables used to prepare daily dishes, they contain a certain amount of vitamins and minerals such as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, cancer prevention. and some diseases such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, diseases related to the digestive system ...

Natural coloring is very good, but there is one drawback that is poor color stability, if you want food to have the desired color, you must use a relatively large amount. Meanwhile, artificial colors are very durable and only need to use a very small amount to highlight the color of the dish.

In many restaurants, restaurants or food manufacturers, artificial colors are often used to save costs, although these artificial colors are all licensed for use by the Ministry of Health, although Of course, it is also difficult to avoid potential harms to human health when using them in food processing, not to mention that many companies are still unethical and use artificial colors containing ingredients. Chemistry is very toxic.

2. A fun way to naturally color your food

Instead of using artificial coloring, we can easily extract or prepare and use it for our home or store meals.

For example, you process green from pandan leaves (also known as sticky leaves) to color cakes, jelly, tea, sticky rice and some soft drinks. This natural colorant has quite good durability when exposed to high temperatures, and especially has a very pleasant aroma. In addition, you can also extract green blood from the leaves of greens, leaves, bamboo, and leaves.

Brown is an indispensable color to make the dishes more attractive. Housewives often use refined sugar to win over the fire until they turn a beautiful brown. Brown color is also obtained from coffee beans, cocoa.

The cakes and sticky rice dishes with many beautiful red, orange, and yellow colors are indispensable for the help of Gac fruit. Or the yellow color of turmeric is also processed in many family dishes. Fresh turmeric or turmeric powder gives a beautiful yellow color, turmeric also has anti-inflammatory effects and prevents many diseases.

In the northern rural areas, there is a kind of cake associated with each person's childhood, which is a gai cake. This glossy black and very fragrant cake is dyed with hemp leaves. The hemp leaves are dried and easily pulverized for use.

The purple color extracted from the leaves is a natural color product that has very good durability when exposed to high temperatures or long periods of time, has no odor and is non-toxic. Crushed freshly crushed camellia leaves usually give a brighter purple color than those used in dry powder form.

When preparing home food, it's best to use natural colorants instead of artificial colors. Although it takes more time to extract artificial colorants, to make the dish more beautiful and healthy, nothing can make it difficult for the housewives to be sure. The cakes are available in flashy and unnatural colors such as spousal cakes, rice cakes ...