Why is tortellini colored?

Chef's answer
Pasta is made with a dough that is kneaded and then fashioned into hundreds of different shapes and sizes. The dough normally is made of wheat or other grains. This results in a yellow-white colour. Other colours are obtained by adding natural colour extracts to the dough before drying.
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golden brownCooked bacon should be golden brown. Overcooked bacon will be a very dark brown. Undercooked bacon is light brown. pink/white color will indicate still raw meat..
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If you have brought good quality pork home from the grocery store or butcher, it should be a pale pinkish-gray color and should have no smell. It may be moist, but it should not be at all slimy in texture. When pork begins to spoil, it will develop a sour odor that will deepen and intensify over time.
The meat in the center should be white and there should be no pink juices. Remember, if you have cooked with smoke, there will probably be pink meat near the surface, but the meat in the center should be white or tan. Click here to see a perfect rib.
To ensure it's done but still retains its pink colour inside, you can pierce the joint with a skewer and check out the juices. A pinky red colour equals medium rare, and pink means medium.
Wild salmon is naturally pink due to their diet which includes astaxanthin, a reddish-orange compound found in krill and shrimp. Farm-raised salmon, however, eat whatever farmers throw into their pen. ... Farmers can go so far as to determine how pink their salmon will be based on how much astaxanthin give the salmon.
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