Why is your popcorn yellow?

Posted by IllustriousBar6164@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 27 comments

Atleast here in Europe as much as I know we only eat like white popcorns and in cinemas is white too

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CaswensCorner@reddit

Plain popcorn is white. Buttered popcorn (not all but many) is yellow because of colorants in the butter flavoring, which is usually not real butter. My household just buys the Orville Redenbacher naturals, lightly salted, and I add my own melted butter. It just looks white.

It’s always going to depend on the brand.

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molten_dragon@reddit

Plain popcorn is white.

Depending on the variety it can be a pale yellow color.

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Porcupine-in-a-tree@reddit

We have white popcorn too. Yellow butter popcorn is just one option.

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xannieh666@reddit

Do you guys not put butter on your popcorn?...

If yellow confuses you wait until you find out we caramel, cinnamon, chocolate, cheddar and other flavors that change the color of the popcorn too.

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Ok_Gas5386@reddit

WE don’t put butter on our popcorn. It’s artificially flavored, artificially colored canola oil and seasoned salt.

If we put actual butter on the popcorn it would be white

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xannieh666@reddit

But real butter isnt always white it CAN be...but not always. I only use real butter and it's definitely yellow, now it will change shades depending on the season the milk was collected but it is yellow....

Now I will say movie theater butter is probably closer to butter flavorings than anything close to being real

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GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit

Butter and butter flavor my guy.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Specifically it’s usually beta carotene that makes it yellow which is just the precursor your body makes into vitamin A.

So it’s not even some spooky chemical.

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GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit

not even some spooky chemical.

Sounds like something that would turn the frogs gay, but ok.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Carrots are know for being quite homosexual coded.

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Cheap_Coffee@reddit

It's covered in butter.

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Ok_Gas5386@reddit

There’s literally no butter on it

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Apprehensive-Top3675@reddit

"Butter"

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Ok_Gas5386@reddit

lol perfect comment, with all these people saying it’s the butter. Melted butter does not turn things fluorescent yellow, people, that’s the additives

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Ok_Gas5386@reddit

Chemicools 😎

Make it from scratch and it’s white

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Capable-View4706@reddit

It’s Flavacol.

Movie popcorn

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penelopeclearwater13@reddit

Buttered popcorn. You should try it sometime

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reddock4490@reddit

Movie theater popcorn in Europe is just as white with yellow flavored sauce as it is in America, lol

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Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit

we have white popcorn, too.

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rollerfedora@reddit

“Butter” flavour and colour (adjusted the spelling for our international audience).

And the movie theater butter is just canola oil.

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SensibleBrownPants@reddit

We eat yellow popcorn when we run out of orange popcorn.

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curious_eyebrow@reddit

The real answer is that our popcorn is generally NOT yellow. It is usually white as one would expect. SOME popcorn is dyed yellow, usually in conjunction with artificial butter flavoring. This is commonly seen in movie theaters or cheap bagged popcorn.

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