# Sweet table colour themes

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## Summary

Sweet table colour themes for weddings, baby showers and birthdays: sweets by colour, and why a bright colour can decide whether a sweet needs a warning.

## Description

A sweet table in one or two colours, laid out in clear jars, is a simple way to make sweets part of the decoration at a wedding, a baby shower or a birthday: see what is a sweet cart?
Themes that work
Pink and white. For birthdays, hen parties and baby showers.Blue and white. For baby showers and summer parties.Gold and yellow. For anniversaries and celebrations.A rainbow. Every colour, for children's parties.
Choose sweets in your colours across different textures, jellies, foams, chocolates and boiled sweets, and use clear jars so the colour shows.
Where each colour comes from
Pinks and reds come from beetroot red, a colour obtained from beets, from anthocyanins in fruit and vegetables, or from carmine, E120, a red made from cochineal insects: see what is carmine?Blues come from a synthetic colour such as brilliant blue, E133, or from spirulina, a blue green alga. Blue Smarties returned in 2008 coloured with spirulina: see what is spirulina doing in my sweets?Yellows and golds come from curcumin, the pigment in turmeric, from carotenes, or from synthetic yellows.Whites can come from the sweet's own ingredients, or from titanium dioxide, E171, which the EU banned as a food additive in 2022 but Great Britain still permits.
See natural colours in sweets
The colours that bring a warning
A bright colour theme can decide whether a sweet carries a warning. Six synthetic colours, including tartrazine (E102), sunset yellow (E110) and allura red (E129), must carry the warning may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children. If the table is mainly for children, sweets coloured from plants avoid the warning: see the Southampton six colours
Sweets by colour from our pick and mix
We sell SW029, SW042, SW015 and SW001 by the 100 g, and each card opens up to show the full ingredients, colours included, and the allergens for the sweets we actually stock. For more ideas, see pick and mix party ideas

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