The Beet Goes On: Finding the Best Edible Dye

Overview

Objectives/Goals The point of my projest was to test whether coffee, beets, spinach, mustard, or blueberries make the best dye. I dyed cloths with these foods and saw which one faded the fastest. Methods/Materials My methods for testing were five washes and seven days of sun exposure. After all of this I compared the test subjects to a chart of shades and the shades varied from zero to ten. Results While the test subjects all faded throughout the experiment, beets faded the most while mustard faded the least. Conclusions/Discussion At the end of my project, I came to find that mustard had the best colorfastness and washfastness. I also found that beets were eaisly washed out and they were eaisly broken down by light exposure.

Competition history

• CSEF 2006 Materials Science (Junior Division Only) · Entry J1103

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