The FDA approved a fourth natural food color additive this year, but how can you avoid the artificial dyes still out there? Anna Gragert Senior Editor, Health and Home Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was ...

Participants will learn traditional indigo dye techniques, create custom textiles and take home their own indigo seedlings ...

Easter, the Christian holiday, is creeping up, with Holy Week kicking off this weekend on Palm Sunday. For those celebrating the festivity, there are plenty of traditions to partake in, including ...

When James Young brews a batch of natural dye from plants he has grown or foraged, he knows something even more indelible than the new color of a white cloth will emerge from the bath. He is infusing ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved three new food dyes that come from natural sources.

Natural dyeing harnesses coloured compounds from plants, insects and minerals to impart hue and functionality to fibres. Traditional methods rely on aqueous extraction of flavonoids, anthocyanins, ...

The ingredients supplier is working with biotech firm Debut to offer a replacement for one of the most widely used artificial ...

Dyers say pigments can imprint a favorite color on clothing, quilts or even yarn and give them a way to connect with nature and preserve it. The flowers of perennial dyer’s chamomile are one of James ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Pepsi has a new challenge: keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting. PepsiCo, which also makes Doritos, ...

PepsiCo, which also makes Doritos, Cap’n Crunch cereal, Funyuns and Mountain Dew, announced in April that it would accelerate a planned shift to using natural colors in its foods and beverages. Around ...