Expert: Paul Wagner - 8/10/2004

Question
i saw that you said pink lemonade was just lemonade with red food coloring, but that cant be it, because it tastes way diffent too.  are there any other possibilities?

Answer
Dear Karen:

There are some products that add raspberry juice to the lemonade--but the classic is just red food coloring.  You  might try tasting them blind--without knowing which is which, to see if you can really tell a difference.  The human mind is very tricky, and there are all sorts of experiments that prove that we taste what we see, even when what we see isn't there!

Paul Wagner