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You can incorporate a variety of ingredients into your dough to add color. You can choose spices like turmeric, which will produce a flamboyantly colored bread, or even charcoal powder, which will give you a black bread that won't go unnoticed!

The best thing is to use natural dyes. It would be a shame to go straight for chemical dyes when nature offers us such a vast array of choice! There are powders, purees, liquids, and various tricks for coloring bread dough naturally. At the same time, though, you should beware of certain products that might potentially also add flavor, whereas others are so discreet that you will never notice their taste and only their color will show up!

Here are some examples of coloring agents you can use to get the following colors:

 Green: spinach (chlorophyll), matcha tea, spirulina, pistachio paste

 Yellow: turmeric, curry

 Orange: carrot, pumpkin

 Red: paprika, tomato, beet

 Purplish pink: red cabbage, red fruits (blueberries), purple carrots, hibiscus

 Black: powdered activated carbon, cuttlefish ink

 Brown beige: malt, cacao

 Blue: petals of blue pea (Clitoria ternatea) to be infused in water

It is fairly simple to incorporate these ingredients into the dough when they are in liquid form, like carrot juice; all you have to do is replace some or all of the liquid in the recipe with the juice. The same is true for purees. For spices and powders, however, you have to just gradually add them until you get the color you want. I usually add between a teaspoon and a tablespoon for 500 grams of flour.

For a very dramatic effect, only color part of the dough: this will allow you to make bread loaves that alternate between colored and neutral zones, which is guaranteed to give you unusual and psychedelic effects.