When eating a beautiful birthday cake, you don't often stop to think about how the icing got its color or how the most decadent French macaron became that perfect shade. But we are all becoming much ...

I’m not really against food coloring, but I’ll happily go the natural route when possible. There are so many amazing colors in food — so why not use them? There are some brands that are now selling ...

You're in luck: These plant-based colorings do a nifty job of turning your food green—just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Serious Eats / Kelli Solomon, Amanda Suarez It's that time of year when the ...

Cheryl Slocum is a James Beard Award-winning food writer, editor, and recipe developer. She has spent over 16 years creating food and entertaining content that resonates with the home cook. Lately, ...

Nate Cira was working in a lab as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin–Madison when he saw something unusual. He was working with a mixture of food coloring and water, placing droplets on an ...

Sometimes a scientist needs to figure out what is in a certain mixture of substances. One way they can do this is to use a process called chromatography. In the activity below, you can try ...