Munch On Colour

What a feast for the eye! ❤️❤️❤️

Biodiversidade do milho peruano mantido pelos descendentes dos incas.

Munch On Colour Easter Series:

Decorating Easter eggs with the help of Nature Part 1:

Natural Food Colourings....
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The ways to use natural colours of food in our lives are quite many and each and everyone of them would be an interesting topic to work with.

Lets start with decorating eggs for Easter..
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You will need

1 cups shredded red cabbage for BLUE
1/2 cup blueberries for DARKER BLUE
2 Tbsp of ground turmeric for YELLOW
1 medium red beet, shredded for REDISH BROWN
1 cup red onion peels for ORANGISH RED
1 cup brewed coffee for BROWN
1 bunch of greens, chopped (parsley, kale, spinach etc) for GREEN

Jars that can fit 2-3 eggs for every colour

White Vinegar
Tap water
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How to:

1. Hard boil the eggs that you'd like to colour. Choose both white and brown egg, so that you can also observe how the colours change with the colours of the shells.

2.Boil each ingredient separately with 2 cups of tap water in a pan. Turn down the heat and simmer for extra 2 minutes. Turn off the heat. Then Add 1 Tbsp white vinegar to the pot.

3. Strain the liquid with a fine strainer and cool it down. Then put into the jars that are assigned for.

4. Add 2-3 eggs in the jar and keep overnight (min 12 hours), or longer for darker and more definitive colours.
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If you want to turn this into a science activity then you focus on some interesting QUESTIONs...

⚗️What is it inside veggies, fruits, spices and beans that give them the colour?
⚗️Do different colours in veggie and fruits have different nutritional values and/or health benefits?

⚗️How else can I use natural colours in the kitchen?

⚗️What happens if I add baking soda instead of vinegar into the liquid

⚗️How can I get brighter colours if I use store-bought food colourings (if you give a try with one) How are store-bought food colouring (artificial colourings) are made?
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Have fun!

"Munch On Colour At Home"

It is not a surprise that Munch On Colour on-sight workshops that we offer at schools are also cancelled for some time.

However this does NOT mean that we cannot have fun exploring the magic of food, fruits and vegetables through play, sensory games, arts and science.
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Through these days that we learn physical distancing and expand our knowledge of being social through other means, we would’d like to share some activities with you all that can be done at home with kids of all ages…

A good cure for the sighs of “I am bored”….

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Most of these activities will also offer the opportunity to talk about sustainability, science of food, food waste, edible gardens, growing food and importance of being a community!

The ease of adding subject of maths, biology, chemistry and even physics to all these activities, we believe is the icing on the cake…

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Let’s enjoy munching on colour together….