time to make my annual post about this again since it’s almost spooky season and somehow people are still doing this in 2022:
do NOT use activated charcoal to dye your food black.
activated charcoal is what you give people who have been poisoned or overdosed because it absorbs it before it gets into your bloodstream. it will nullify your medications. so that leaves all your antidepressants, epilepsy meds, painkillers etc completely useless, as well as birth control (which, with everything going on right now, is really really bad). your spooky black ice cream or lemonade or whatever has the potential to kill people.
as a little spooky alt person, i understand, i really do. but please for the love of god just use black gel food colouring, it’s cheaper and completely tasteless and works WAY better than charcoal would anyway.
