Food Coloring Goes Under The Microscope In This Collection Of Stunning Crystal Imagery
Tartrazine Tartrazine goes by many names, including Acid Yellow 23, E102, and Yellow 5. It also makes for a very pretty crystalline structure when magnified a few hundred times. Linden GledhillBiochemist and experimental photographer Linden Gledhill coaxed some common food dyes into crystal and then turned them into art. If you truly are what you eat you should definitely eat more Tartrazine Yellow and Allura Red, because man are they ever beautiful. Food colorings like these often make headlines when some study (or rumor of a study) suggests they are slowly killing us (remember back in the ‘90s when Yellow 5--that's Tartrazine--was allegedly making us all sterile?). But here, biochemist and experimental photographer Linden Gledhill has captured them in all their crystalline, microscopic grandeur. Gledhill first discovered these beautiful crystal structures in the course of his day job while staining biological samples for microscopy. After developing some methods for producing the...