Purple Sweet Potatoes Among 'New Naturals' for Food and Beverage Colors
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Mention purple sweet potatoes, black carrots or purple carrots, and people think of dining on exotic veggies. But those plants and others have quietly become sources of a new generation of natural food colorings that are replacing traditional synthetic colors and colors derived from beetles. That back-to-the-future trend is on the agenda today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.