ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Anatto

Hi there! Anatto is something called a food coloring. Food coloring is added to foods to make them a different color, just like how you might use crayons to color a picture.

Anatto is a food coloring that comes from a special plant. The plant has seeds that are bright red and they can be used to make an orange color in foods. So if you see an orangey-yellow color in your food, there's a chance anatto was used to make it that color!

What's really cool about anatto is that it's made from a natural source - the seeds of a plant. Some food colorings might be made from chemicals in a lab, but anatto comes straight from nature.

So there you have it - anatto is a food coloring that makes food orange and it comes from a special plant. Cool huh?