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Vegan Food Colors

I will be making cookies to send to some family members this weekend and would like to decorate them.  What brands of food colorings are vegan if any?

Thank you
monkey7

There's this brand: http://www.seelecttea.com/index.php?cPath=41

I know that I've seen a brand in our (normalish) super market, and I think it's that one. Not sure if you can find it, and it's probably going to be pretty expensive.
What colors are you wanting? You could also go a 'natural' route with fruits, beet powder, and other such things?

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I was thinking of using blue, green,yellow, and maybe red.  Thank you for the suggetions.  :)

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From what I can tell, these food colorings are vegan: McCormick 4 color set, and probably many others. 

FD&C YELLOW 5, FD&C RED 40, FD&C BLUE 1, FD&C RED 3 - these are all derived from petroleum from a brief google search, but feel free to verify on your own.  Propylene glycol is listed as vegan by the Vegetarian Resource Group, and, although I couldn't find propylparaben immediately, but Wikipedia says that it is usually synthetically produced.

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From what I can tell, these food colorings are vegan: McCormick 4 color set, and probably many others. 

FD&C YELLOW 5, FD&C RED 40, FD&C BLUE 1, FD&C RED 3 - these are all derived from petroleum from a brief google search, but feel free to verify on your own.  Propylene glycol is listed as vegan by the Vegetarian Resource Group, and, although I couldn't find propylparaben immediately, but Wikipedia says that it is usually synthetically produced.

Thank you for the information.

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There's this brand: http://www.seelecttea.com/index.php?cPath=41

I know that I've seen a brand in our (normalish) super market, and I think it's that one. Not sure if you can find it, and it's probably going to be pretty expensive.
What colors are you wanting? You could also go a 'natural' route with fruits, beet powder, and other such things?

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