Natural Food Colorings

When cooking for our dogs we try to use the most natural and nutritional ingredients possible. So it doesn't make sense to go to all the trouble to make a healthy snack and then add something unnatural like food coloring. Try some of these other natural food colorings in your next recipe. But be sure that your dog likes the flavor, or if you use too much it may wreck the other flavors in the biscuits.

Bluish Purple: Blueberries

Purple: Blackberries

Red: Paprika or Tomatoes

Pinkish-Red: Beets or Strawberries

Green: Spinach

Yellowish-Orange: Turmeric or Curry Powder

* Be sure never to use grape juice or coffee to flavor or color to anything, as these are harmful to your dog.

* Disbrow Talley, Jessica and Talley, Eric The Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook. Cider Mill Press Book Publishers, 2008.

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