- Pack of two sets of decorating colors (total 4.5 ounces)
- India Tree Natural Decorating Colors are made from highly concentrated vegetable colorants. They contain no corn syrup or synthetic dyes
- Use them to color icing in rich jewel tones or soft pastels: Add India Tree Natural Decorating Colors to your frosting one drop at a time
- With the primary colors - yellow, red, and blue - you can create a full spectrum
- Try the following combinations: yellow + blue = green; blue + red = purple, lavender, and violet; red + yellow = gold, orange, and terra cotta
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Blue: Glycerin, Deionized Water, Red Cabbage. Red: Beet Juice, Citric Acid. Yellow: Glycerin, Deionized Water, Turmeric, Sodium Hydroxide.
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Blue: Glycerin, Deionized Water, Red Cabbage. Red: Beet Juice, Citric Acid. Yellow: Glycerin, Deionized Water, Turmeric, Sodium Hydroxide.
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Created with vegetable colorants. India Tree Natural Decorating Colors are made from highly concentrated vegetable colorants. They contain no corn syrup or synthetic dyes. Use them to color icing in rich jewel tones or soft pastels. Add them to your frosting a drop at a tie.
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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***Updated Dec 8, 2011******
From reading recent comments it sounds like this product has changed from when I reviewed it. My package lists the ingredients as Blue: Deionized water, glycerin, red cabbage. Red: Beet juice, citric acid. Yellow: Deionized water, glycerin, curcumin. More recent customers claim it now has chemicals. If you are interested in natural food coloring, this doesn't sound like the product for you. Hopefully Amazon will get the listing straightened out.
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We avoid artificial ingredients, so after attempting to color icing for Chirstmas cookies with fruit juice and beet juice last year, I bought this food coloring to try out this year. After reading the other reviews, I didn't have high expectations and was only hoping that it would be easier than making my own (and it was).
But I was able to get rich, vibrant colors, not simply pastels. Certainly they weren't the bright artificial colors you get with petrochemicals, but they were far from the pale pink and yellows I was expecting.
My first experimentation was with small batches of icing - only using a few tablespoons of powdered sugar and milk and 2-5 drops of coloring. The red came out a magenta, not Barbie pink, but definitely not red, either. The blue was kind of a greyish blue. The yellow was the most like you would expect. I had also thought that the colors wouldn't mix well but I made green by mixing the blue and yellow and a nice purple by mixing blue and red.
As one reviewer noted, they don't have as long as a shelf life as non-natural colors. I bought mine in October and they are dated 5/2011. But I put them in the refrigerator immediately (not waiting until after they were opened) and I have read on another site that carries them that this can extend their life up to a year. The yellow separates so I shook it well before using.
I was very pleased with the results and would definitely use them again. I'll try to post a photo of our Christmas cookies with the product.
From reading recent comments it sounds like this product has changed from when I reviewed it. My package lists the ingredients as Blue: Deionized water, glycerin, red cabbage. Red: Beet juice, citric acid. Yellow: Deionized water, glycerin, curcumin. More recent customers claim it now has chemicals. If you are interested in natural food coloring, this doesn't sound like the product for you. Hopefully Amazon will get the listing straightened out.
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We avoid artificial ingredients, so after attempting to color icing for Chirstmas cookies with fruit juice and beet juice last year, I bought this food coloring to try out this year. After reading the other reviews, I didn't have high expectations and was only hoping that it would be easier than making my own (and it was).
But I was able to get rich, vibrant colors, not simply pastels. Certainly they weren't the bright artificial colors you get with petrochemicals, but they were far from the pale pink and yellows I was expecting.
My first experimentation was with small batches of icing - only using a few tablespoons of powdered sugar and milk and 2-5 drops of coloring. The red came out a magenta, not Barbie pink, but definitely not red, either. The blue was kind of a greyish blue. The yellow was the most like you would expect. I had also thought that the colors wouldn't mix well but I made green by mixing the blue and yellow and a nice purple by mixing blue and red.
As one reviewer noted, they don't have as long as a shelf life as non-natural colors. I bought mine in October and they are dated 5/2011. But I put them in the refrigerator immediately (not waiting until after they were opened) and I have read on another site that carries them that this can extend their life up to a year. The yellow separates so I shook it well before using.
I was very pleased with the results and would definitely use them again. I'll try to post a photo of our Christmas cookies with the product.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
It is fabulous that there is an all natural food dye safe to use for my child allergic to anything chemical and artificial in his food. However, the dye is thick and goopy and makes the frosting much thicker and pastier than it should be, not smooth at all. Also, you can not get a rich deep color with this stuff so plan for everything to be pastel if you need anything darker rather than lighter in color. Still, over all, because it is one of the fewest choices I have to color my candy and desserts for my child on the Feingold diet, I recommend it to at least try. The price is much too steep though for the quality the product doesn't give.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I really wanted to like these. I bought the double pack so I would have one for home and one for school. The school used traditional food dyes and my daughter broke out in hives. Not good. But we just tried to make playdough with these colors and were unable to make blue or green or yellow. Shades of reddish-pink to purply colors were ok. Perhaps it would help if I used bleached flour . As is, I can only endorse this half-heartedly for those who aren't trying to achieve a very specific color. It's a lot of money to spend for a product that only works moderately. I wish I had just experimented with juices instead (spinach, beet, and carrot) as someone else had recommended. I still would pick these over standard food dyes since those are linked to causing cancer and no amount of fun with food dye is worth that!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great if you aren't heating it...
These colors make a bunch of beautiful colors, but if you are baking - BEWARE. The heat plus the baking soda will fade out most of these colors and your creation will be barely... Read more
Published 10 days ago by Lauren
There has got to be better
I'm surprised that this is the best we can do in the area of chemical free food coloring. I could not get the red to be red, bright magenta is the best I could do no matter how... Read more
Published 1 month ago by JGal
India Tree DOES NOT contain toxic chemicals.
I spoke to a woman at India Tree at length about their ingredients. She said that for a short run of the product, they used a formulation that included propylene glycol and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by S. D. Gifford
yeah natural but....not for eggs, pale, short shelf life, etc...
I bought mine at Whole Foods, and was excited at first, but no where on the package does it say that these colors do not work on eggs. Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Woodmansee
CONTAINS POISON NOT NATURAL
There is nothing "natural" about propylene glycol, a bi-product of the oil industry and a known irritant and poison which is unecessarily added to this product. Read more
Published 5 months ago by scribblemania
False addvertising
I bought this dye for my son's second birthday cake. I needed the color's red, blue and yellow, which they addvertise that the color's are. Read more
Published 5 months ago by natural mommy
Too expensive for the shelf life
I bought this product for my son who is on the Feingold diet and has very bad reactions to artificial colors. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Frustrated
PLEASE READ! DANGER!
If you have allergies, DO NOT ORDER THIS PRODUCT!!! Or if you care about false advertising of the most egregious kind, DO NOT ORDER THIS PRODUCT!! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Kelloggs
Disappointed
I'm disappointed and I haven't even used it yet. When I checked the ingredients list on line everything was ok. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Betty M Kehrle
Overall, good experience using this food coloring
I used this food coloring in some frosting for cupcakes, and it worked out pretty well. The colors do tend to be more of a pastel, but it worked really well for what I used it... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Troy
