why are cherries red?

Answer 1

because gs's eat them

Answer 2

Cherries come in red, deep purple, yellow, yellow green, and black. Cherries are these vibrant colors to attract birds and animals to eat them, cr.. out the seed on new soil, and have a new tree begin. It is how cherries complete reproduction.

Answer 3

The reasons `Cherries turn red` is because they ripe. Birds + man can distinguish the different colours.

Answer 4

This is natures way of distributing their seeds or pips, they are red to attract birds who eat them and they are then transported in the bird droppings, this applies to many soft fruits and berries, the bird droppings actually give the seed a ready made fertilizer, mother nature is fantastic.

Answer 5

They contain compounds called anthocyanins, which are red colored. These are the same class of compounds that make grapes, stawberries, many flowers and other foods red. Different from lycopene and betalins (found in tomatoes and beets).

Answer 6

They ran out of yellow with the lemons and had left over red from the apples.

Answer 7

when you buy fresh cherries they can be deep red or yellow which are their natural color but if you buy maraschino cherries they are the bright red color due to added color.

Answer 8

They reflect red light while absorbing other colors in the visible spectrum.

Answer 9

Lycopene, the same stuff that makes tomatoes red. It's very healthy, too!

Answer 10

natural red colourant!

Answer 11

Because they blush easily