Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Food Coloring

Since I'm being inquisitive:  How is food coloring made?  I am sure I could Google this and find some real answer, but one of the reasons I have a blog is to inspire others to think.  To maybe think about things that are usually taken for granted and to question them.  Sure, this is silly and in no way important to anyone's life, but still.  How is food coloring made?  It's used to make other foods, but how is it made? 
How is licorice made?  There is no natural food that taste like licorice, but through some magic of technology and processing we get Twizzlers?  It's considered a candy like M&M's but M&M's make sense.. M&M's are just chocolate (relatively natural) and peanut butter (relatively natural).  What the hell is licorice? 

1 comment:

  1. Licorice is a plant (root). Though it doesn't come in strawberry flavors.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice

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