I want to extract color from anything like flowers, fruits, powders, etc, to make a colorful mocktail to drink!
It's important that the produced color doesn't change the taste of the drink. (so less flavor is better).
My goal is to get colors like green and purple.
How can I do this?
Best Answer
I know you can color foods with natural-dye ingredients, like using spinach powder for green, beet powder for red, and so on. These will change the taste a little, but it doesn't have to be much (especially if you can keep the color powder on the surface).
I realize you're concerned about the taste difference, well, I've heard of cupcakes made with spinach powder (or possibly the frosting was made green, not sure), that were still good... the powder was barely noticeable, the amount needed even for a good color didn't change the taste much at all. So it is possible, if you're not using heaps of powder, for the difference in taste to be subtle or unnoticeable, especially if you've other strong flavors in there.
I know there are places where this kind of natural food-coloring-powder is sold, if you don't want to dry and grind your own (and better control in said drying and processing will give better color for less). I found one such set on bluechai's website, there are likely to be others