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I don't care about either of those, but I'm kind of curious what Doritos would be like without any dye at all. The power on the stuff makes a visible mess, because it's so intense in color. It should be possible to achieve the flavor without the color.
I feel like it wouldn't change much since it's mostly dehydrated cheddar, chili powder and paprika. All those combined already make a fairly reddish-orange color that will still absolutely stick to your fingers.
Maybe slightly paler?
Ah, thanks for looking at it. Hmm.
Paprika is mostly for color, so they could maybe drop that. Chili powder...well, for the spiciness, you can just put capsaicin in directly.
Cheddar is actually normally white. The orange color we're used to is itself mostly added coloring, so one could use white cheddar.
goes looking for something on cheddar coloring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese
Dammit, the more I talk about it, the more I really want non-terribly-messy Doritos. If Frito-Lay doesn't want to do it, I wonder if some other corn chip manufacturer could clone it and just dump the coloring.
https://www.kroger.com/p/doritos-simply-organic-spicy-white-cheddar-tortilla-chips/0002840074477
About the same. The non-spicy ones look more like plain tortilla chips. On these ones, the spice powder is colorful enough without added dye.
Thanks. I think, though, that the "organic spice powder" is probably changed for the organic version, to include things that act as natural colors.
So, it looks like (regular) Doritos uses Yellow 5, an artificial color. I don't see any breakdown for Doritos, but for another food that was replacing Yellow 5:
https://www.foodprocessing.com/product-development/color/article/55264494/here-are-replacements-for-banned-color-additives
So my guess is that turmeric probably would qualify as "organic spices", and you'd use it to color things.