Yes, you can mix different shades of food coloring to make your own unique color palette for any culinary creation. Create lighter shades of pinks, greens, blues, yellows, oranges, and reds by adding lighter food coloring to any food dye. You can also use more drops of food coloring or food color powder if you want to achieve a vibrant color. Using more of our red food colorings in recipes will impart flavor. Our flavor chemist recommends customers do small batch testing.