What is the natural color of Oranges?

Question

parshooter you are correct, but do you know why?

Answer 1

Green

Answer 2

They start out green on the trees and turn orange as they ripen. Sometimes if the oranges are harvested early, the citrus industry exposes them to high levels of carbon dioxide which makes them turn orange. You can do this at home by placing the green oranges in a paper bag and sealing it; this process works for green tomatos, too, and goes even faster if you put a banana in the bag..

Answer 3

The addition of natural colors to dairy foods helps maintain the natural ingredient statement, while helping to add the important functionality of color.

Let's look at a typical scenario for a product developer. After a meeting with marketing, the product developer's new project entails developing a dairy-based product with the following requirements: Pasteurization, stable strawberry color, kosher status and vegetarian friendly.

Let's begin by examining the possible colors available for use in this type of product. The natural colors, which are available today, can be derived from a wide variety of raw materials, allowing one to achieve the desired color hue and labeling requirements.

Examples of some raw materials that could impart a strawberry color include:

Carmine--Various forms of carmine impart a nice 'light pink to red hue in dairy products. However, this particular product would not work for this product developer's project since it is not kosher and would be non-vegetarian. Carmine is the calcium or aluminum lake of carminic acid, which is extracted from the bodies of the female cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus).
Beet juice--Although beet juice gives a nice strawberry color, its performance is often unsatisfactory under most conditions such as heating and light exposure, when it typically fades and no longer imparts strawberry color.

Red anthocyanin--based and yellow-orange carotenoid-based colors derived from fruits and vegetables can achieve a nice strawberry color with the best stability to heat and light while also having kosher status.

Anthocyanins--Pinks, reds and purples derived from fruits and vegetables such as elderberries, chokeberries or carrots are dependent on pH, shifting color hues from pinks and reds at pH 3.0 to purple-violets at pH 5.0 and blues at pH 7.0.

Carotenoids--Yellows and oranges derived from fruits and vegetables such as carrots or pumpkins are independent of pH and provide the same color shade in all application types.

Answer 4

Green

Answer 5

Yellow

Answer 6

I would HOPE the natural color is orange. If not, God help us all.

Answer 7

orange

Answer 8

first dark green after that orrange n after that they r of yellow colour.

Answer 9

pink with yellow spots and blue triangles ,if your smoking what your smoking you numpty.

Answer 10

magenta with chartreuse stripes