What color is bitterness?

Bitterness is green because…

• “Bitterness is green because bitter melons are green.”
• “Lots of green vegetables are bitter.”
• “I imagine bitterness is green because I see it as something similar to sour; a gross feeling on the tongue.”
• “It’s the look of vomit. ”
• “Most poisons are bitter, which is also why bitter foods are acquired tastes.”
• “Unripe fruit is green and bitter.”
• “Pickles are green and bitter, and disgust is green.”
• “Limes are bitter.”
• “Green tea is green, and it is bitter. ”
• “Unripe fruits are often associated with bitterness and the color green.”
• “Well, sickness is green, and sickness is bitter.”

Bitterness is yellow because…

• “Lemons are bitter.”
• “Because of the durian fruit which is better and yellow.”
• “Yellow is a jarring color.”
• “Lemons are yellow and bitter.”

Bitterness is brown because…

• “Brown is the color of coffee and dark chocolate, plus both start with b.”
• “Because coffee is bitter.”
• “It’s just the shape of the word.”
• “Coffee and such. I also think of times in the Bible where water was bitter and I imagine it being brown and dirty.”
• “Coffee and the way bitter tastes feels like how brown looks.”
• “Because they both start with a B. Coincidence? I don’t think so!”
• “Dark chocolate, coffee.”

Bitterness is orange because…

• “Oranges can be very bitter. ”
• “The peel of an orange.”
• “Orange gives me a feeling that I think is bitter, and it relates with August and Fall.”
• “Feeling bitter is close to red (anger), but something bitter is close to yellow (lemons). Orange is right in between. ”
• “Bitterness the feeling is green or orange. Bitterness the taste is yellow or orange.”

Bitterness is grey because…

• “Grey isn’t colourful, and when something is bitter, it doesn’t feel like anything.”
• “It’s a stale feeling with a stale color.”
• “Being Colourful and Tasteful is the opposite of bitter. Gray is the least colourful colour I know.”

Bitterness is black because…

• “Burnt food tastes bitter.”
• “It’s like the carbon on burnt food.”
• “It sounds like bitter chocolate.”
• “I think of black liquorice.”

Bitterness is pink because…

• “Grapefruit is pink and also bitter. ”