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Why is custard powder pink until you add the liquid, upon which it becomes yellow?

Question #117392. Asked by star_gazer.
Last updated Sep 12 2021.

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Custard powder is often coloured with a blend of tartrazine yellow or quinoline yellow food dyes, mixed with sunset yellow. In solution with water, these colours are true to their names, but in their pre-dissolved solid phase the sunset yellow portion is more orange-red, and this colour tends to dominate.

When mixed with the other custard powder components, which are white, the result is a pastel orange-red, or pink. Many pure colourants, both dyes and pigments, have a very different shade from that required in their final state.

link https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg19526191-600-colour-of-custard/

Response last updated by satguru on Sep 12 2021.
Sep 09 2010, 1:18 AM
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