Why is pepperoni red?!
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It red because the nitrate reacts with certain compounds in the muscle cell to form nitrosohemochrome which is red. It's the same for all cured meats. Different backgrounds give slightly different shades of red.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
Because its meat, and meat is red from the flesh and blood of the animals killed in the process of making it.
because they paint the pepperoni in edible paint before shipping, and the cheapest color is red.
CEO of a Pepperoni company
Some store bought pepperoni is colored.... Natural pepperoni I am unsure
~rachel
meat from the filling.
dead bay-bay
PAPRIKA
It would look funny if it were blue.
would you eat it if it was green?
