The pulp around the seeds of B. orellana yields annatto, a red dye used for both foods and body paint.
In such cases small amounts of a yellow vegetable colouring from the seed of the annatto tree may be added to enhance the colour.
It is now a commercial and processing centre for produce of the irrigated Liguanea Plain (bananas, sugarcane, annatto, breadfruit, coffee, cacao, and citrus fruit).
It contained cocoa nibs, ancho chilies, honey, barley, and annatto seeds.
French farmers responded by creating Mimolette, which is similar to both, colored orange by the addition of annatto seeds and shaped into a ball.
The ingredients there are rather particular; among them is achiote, also called annatto, a hard seed that imparts a delicious musky flavor and bright color to many marinades.
We tore into an order of ropa vieja, literally "old clothes," a traditional meal of shredded beef and sauce that Mr. Castrellón has invigorated with spicy peppers, annatto and goat cheese salsa.
—Robert Simonson NBC Latino: Melissa Bailey, who writes the blog Hungry Food Love and was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, lays out the fundamental D.R. spices: annatto, oregano and aniseed.
Breyers extra-creamy vanilla frozen dairy dessert: milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, mono and diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, natural flavor, annatto (for color), vitamin A palmitate, tara gum.
Try the pook chuuk — grilled pork fillets marinated in Mayan white spices and sour orange, or the tikin xic, snapper grilled in annatto sauce.
