ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – Today is Easter, which means many are transforming their white eggs into muted pastels through at-home coloring techniques.
Melissa Wright, director of Virginia Tech’s Food Producer Technical Assistance Network in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has some tips on how to use ingredients you might already have lying in your kitchen to dye eggs naturally.
“There are many foods that can impart color to eggshells,” she said. “Yellow coloring can come from saffron, turmeric, or carrots; red or pink from beets, raspberries, or blueberries; green from spinach or matcha; and blue from purple cabbage.”…