2006-09-12 07:41:32 · 15 answers · asked by pepzi_bandit 2 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Baked beans have some tomato in them. The lycopene chemicals, in tomatoes, are red. Cooking partially oxidises them and they turn orange-yellow. Also fats combine with the lycopenes and change the colour to orangy yellow or brown.
Dan
2006-09-12 07:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the tomato sauce may be red, but there are other ingredients that go into baked beans that change the color of the beans, like molasses, onions, butter, bacon, spices, etc. And once you cook it down, it becomes a nice reddish-orangeish-golden color that one associates with baked beans.
2006-09-12 08:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Chef Orville 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Baked" beans are usually combined with other ingredients like onions, bacon, butter, brown sugar, molasses or my "secret" ingredient-maple syrup etc. When I make them, the only tomato I put in is 1./2 cup of kethcup. The orange color is the chemical reaction of the skin of the bean with the other ingredients.
Do you use straight tomato sauce in your baked beans? ACK!
2006-09-12 07:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mimi Di 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me see: Yellow beans, slowly simmered in red tomato sauce. Somehow it comes out orange.
Where is the mystery worth the points lost for asking?
2006-09-12 08:06:27 · answer #4 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple, non-technical answer: Haricot beans are a pale creamy colour, when they are stained with tomato sauce the combination is orange.
If it was pea soup they would be a wonderful shade of green!!
2006-09-12 07:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by sarah b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre haricot beans and anyway, i dont think beans soak up a color of the sauce
2006-09-12 07:47:34 · answer #6 · answered by *Account Deleted* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the molasses. It carmelizes the sugar in the tomato paste, too.
2006-09-12 07:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are jamaican orange beans the red ones are used for making glue
2006-09-12 07:43:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not racist. I love all beans. Red, orange, black or white.
2006-09-12 08:18:31 · answer #9 · answered by strawberri_shortcake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are Haricot beans, thats their colour. Simple as that!
2006-09-12 07:45:39 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋