Watkins Assorted Food Coloring, 1 Each Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Total Four 0.3 oz bottles, 4 Count (Pack of 1)

I enjoy these as a replacement of regular color dyes. The bottle sizes are about average, and value is fair for money. After all, anything better for us is going to be twice the price. When used for baking the colors run lighter, if you want a darker color then more drops will have to be added. Overall, happy this is an option for colorful desserts.

I was looking for a better alternative to the regular food dye in the stores and came across this. I knew ahead of time that the colors were very light, so I’m okay with it. But if you are looking for bright, vibrant color, this is not the product for you!

Love that these are dye free food coloring. I used these to dye some cake frosting for my daughter’s 1st birthday cake. The color pigment is great & buildable and knowing it was dye free gave me peace of mind for my little one to consume. Would recommend this to any momma’s worried about dye-free products (and to anyone in general)!

First of all I have to note that while these dyes are not perfect, I’m thrilled that there’s an alternative to making a colorful cake that’s full of artificial dye. It makes my son go crazy, so we’ve recently been cutting it out as much as possible. This is my first experience with using it. I’m not a professional. I’m self-taught and only do cakes for my kids’ birthdays. That said, here’s my experience! First, I only used fondant for coloring. I believe that’s relevant to the review and that icing may color differently. So, the colors are pastel, not vibrant (with the exception of the yellow, which is gorgeous!). You can achieve a better color by adding more dye of course, but they will still be pastel tones at best and it takes a lot of dye to get a good color. For reference, I used the whole bottle of blue to get the light blue effect pictured for the sky. After a small test I determined the red would not work. No matter how much I worked it in, I get not get it to the bright color I was looking for, and the fondant started to turn slimy from too much liquid added. So how did I get the bright colors shown in the picture? I painted it on with paintbrushes! That turned out to be the key to get vibrant colors for our beloved Paper Mario. On mixing colors: When I mixed the colors to make brown for the bricks, the dye stayed wet and after a few minutes the colors separated back out. Instead of brown, the blocks had little green, red, and yellow specks. Weird! I brushed them with a dry brush and the colors mixed back in. They were fine after that. The dye seems to stay wet if you do the painting method instead of the working-it-into-the-fondant method, but that was okay with me as long as the colors stayed put! If you do mix the colors by working it into the fondant, the colors don’t separate out and you can mix them up as much as you want. However, that method is best reserved for light colors (the peach-colored fondant for Mario’s skin and the mushroom, for example). All in all, it was a positive experience. My rating would probably be closer to a 3.5, but if I have to round it to the nearest star then it has to be 4, since overall I’m just happy this was even an option and even though there was a learning curve, I was thrilled with how it turned out! For the black lines, I used TruColor grape gel paste mixed with a little vodka and they turned out great. If you found this review helpful (or maybe you just like the Paper Mario cake), please give me a thumbs up! Thanks!

These colors are actually really great! They come out as a more “pastel” color. As you can se on the cake photos the very red flowers are done with the regular red dye and the lighter red flowers (and all of the other details) are done with the watkins colors. They mix in very well to butter creams as well as icing. I have baked with these as well and since they are natural, most of the color tends to bake out by the time the cake is done. I made red velvet cake with these once and it turned out just a slightly reddish brown. If you use a lot of the blue or green, I do notice a slight taste, but if you have ever used spirulina, then you know it does have a bit of a taste. The texture of these are a bit more gel-like, but not as solid as gel colors, and it is pretty easy to mix up the color that you are trying to achieve. Overall I would recommend these is you are trying to avoid the regular FD&C dyes.

I love that these dyes are natural! I just wish they worked better. You could easily use half a bottle of dye and still have a very pale color. I tried making orange by combining the red and yellow today, and after using what felt like an excessive amount of the dye, I ended up with a pretty drab beige color for my frosting. What's extra weird is that after sitting for a few hours that drab beige turned into almost fluorescent yellow (I think because of the turmeric?). I was aiming for pumpkin orange, so this was not ideal... I would not recommend these dyes. However, if you're super desperate and absolutely not willing to use regular food dyes...I guess give them a shot? Just prepare to use excessive amounts to receive any type of actual color...

These dyes work great!! And are an awesome alternative to using real dye, and its alot healthier to use aswell. If you use alot they give off a taste just like anything would. Overall, they work great!!!

Amazing food coloring we are dye free and this is our go to brand!

This is good I wish they would put the colour mixtures on the back of the box. I had to google it when I was mixing the colours. It’s a little expensive aswell. My son wanted to make slime and I wasn’t going to the grocery store just to get the stuff to make slime. I didn’t find there was a flavour to it either. They are easy to use as long as you are using just the one colour and not mixing them together. I found the yellow was super thick aswell and almost seemed like jelly.

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Better option then the store color. So much healthier and I dont feel bad feeding it to my family.

I'm excited to try this stuff out. Hopefully it's as bright as the color that spilt all over the box. When I got it, yellow was everywhere... and it's not eligible for re place ment or re turn.