The Best Natural Alternatives to Food Coloring

With Easter just around the corner, we’re always looking for safe alternatives to food coloring for dying our Easter eggs and icing our sugar cookies. These three brands use only plant-based ingredients that will add some color to your desserts this holiday, without using artificial dyes.

McCormick

One of the nation’s most well-known spice and food coloring distributors has released food colors that are made from plants, vegetables, and seeds. The colors available are sky blue which is made from spirulina, berry which is made from beet juice, and sunflower which is made from turmeric.

India Tree

This brand only uses natural sources from fruits, vegetables, and spices that have been approved by the FDA. The liquid vegetable-based colors blend easily into batters and mixes and it comes in red, yellow, blue, and orange.

Suncore Foods

There are so many color options with Suncore Foods that offers over 20 shades of 100 percent plant-based colors that are made from fruits, vegetables, leaves, and flowers. Each color has one plant-based ingredient and you can choose between red dragon fruit powder, blue butterfly pea powder, and red beet powder, among many others.