How to Make Natural Green Food Coloring

Looking for a natural way to add green color to you St. Patty’s day foods this year? Check out my easy Natural Green Food Coloring!

Food coloring and dyes give foods wonderful colors, but traditional food dyes found in the baking section are artificial. But did you know real foods can be used to color our foods? Spinach can be used to make a natural green food dye! And get this it’s really easy to make. The bright green in spinach makes it the perfect natural food coloring and can provide a little added nutritional benefit like added fiber, Vitamin C among other vitamins and minerals.

What do you need?

• Spinach
• Water

Yup that is it! Add them to a blender and you have yourself natural green food dye you can add to just about anything!

What Can You Use Natural Green Food Coloring In?

• pancakes
• oatmeal
• eggs
• muffins
• smoothies.

Just add one to two teaspoons to baked good or few splashes to smoothies to turn your favorite St. Patty’s day treats green! This is a great activity for kids too.

Make the dye together and have a little science experiment, turning some of their favorite foods green! One thing I will say is the colors aren’t as vibrant and the artificial green food dye. But it is  enough that you get the look.

Looking for other natural green food coloring ideas?

How about Matcha?! These 4-Ingredient Matcha Green Tea Pancakes are made green from Matcha alone.