are cherries dyed to look redder?

[Anonymous]

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Oranges are often painted to be orange all over, instead of the natural mottled green-orange. But that's just the surface. I confess I don't quite see how you could evenly dye the flesh of an entire fruit... much less millions of small individual ones.

No

Surprise! (was to me too)
https://www.cookinglight.com/news/are-oranges-dyed#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20FDA%2C%20oranges,The%20other%20way%20Red%20No.

I remember a New Yorker article about a plant in Brooklyn maybe? where I seem to remember they made maraschino cherries for years and there was some big complicated business involving red dyes and water supplies, I think bees may have gotten involved. It was an old family business and a lot of stuff got really crazy, and it was all about red syrup.

I am pretty sure some tomatoes are also sprayed with something that makes them appear that ripe, red color before they are actually ripe.

Tomatoes are picked green so they’ll survive shipment. The distributors gas them to make them turn red. The ethylene gas is a gas the tomatoes would produce themselves, but the taste isn’t as good as a vine-ripened tomato.

https://www.drgourmet.com/askdrgourmet/ethylenegas.shtml

[Anonymous]

Maraschino cherries are dyed.

[Anonymous]

They are dying watermelon 🍉 red...

Why not cherries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i have a friend who swears cherries are dyed a deeper shade of red and that you can "tell" the dyed ones because they leave red juice on your fingers,
she also claims that her son is very allergic to the red dye.
there are whole foods organic cherries we are discussing.

i think its total BS, but who knows, maybe its ok if the dye is organic, too?

i've just never ever heard of this.

Remind your friend that many dyes come from nature, so dyes that stain are not necessarily artificial. Then have her crack open a pomegranate and rub it on a white t shirt as a science experiment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are dying watermelon 🍉 red...

Why not cherries?

No, they’re not.

[Anonymous]

No, fresh cherries have no dye. That’s a fact.