Research · Updated 17 Oct, 07:25 pm IST
Hacker News user soaks chicken in tartrazine (Dorito dye) to make it partly transparent
Why it matters for readers: A fun, real example of how a common food dye can change how biological tissue looks when soaked.
- The experiment used tartrazine, the yellow‑orange food dye found in Doritos, to attempt optical clearing of raw chicken breast.1
- A ~2 mm thick chicken slice soaked in ~0.19 M tartrazine at room temperature for six hours showed partial transparency with grid lines visible through it.1
- The poster contrasted their informal method with the original paper, which used 0.62 M tartrazine, 40 °C and a shaker for stronger clearing.1
- The author credited Adaobi Adibe for suggesting the paper and described the visual result as similar to a gummy bear while noting unchanged tactile texture.1
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