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156 Things That Are White

John Spacey, updated on May 07, 2024

White is the color that results from light that contains a full spectrum of wavelengths. The mind could perceive this as unbelievably colorful but makes a simplification whereby this colorful light is mapped to white that is perceived as a regular color. White things are common in nature as sunlight itself is white in space before it is scattered by the atmosphere to look yellowish. Likewise, snow, ice, clouds and foamy water are white. For this reason, some animals are white as a form of camouflage in snowy environments. White is the ultimate background color as it doesn't absorb any light and has high contrast with all dark colors. As such, it is a pervasive color for things such as paint and paper that serve as backgrounds. The following are common white things.

Almonds (peeled)	Apple Sauce
Arctic Wolves	Baking Soda
Banana	Baseballs
Bathrobes	Beer Foam
Beluga Whales	Birch Bark
Bleached Coral	Bones
Bread / Buns	Cakes
Candles	Cannellini Beans
Cauliflower	Ceramics
Chalk	Cheese
Chickens	Clouds
Coconuts	Coffee Foam
Concrete	Cooked Chicken
Cotton	Cream
Cream Cheese	Daikon
Daisies	Dandelions
Dogs	Dogwood
Dough	Doves
Dragonfruit	Eggs
Egrets	Enoki
Feathers	Flour
Foam	Frost
Garlic	Geese
Ghosts	Ginseng
Glue	Goats
Golf Balls	Gypsum
Hail	Hair
Horses	Ice
Icebergs	Icing
Jasmine	Lab Coats
Lace	Light (full spectrum light)
Lilies	Limestone
Lychee	Marble
Marshmallows	Mayonnaise
Meringue	Metal
Milk	Milk Shakes
Milky Quartz	Moisturizer
Moon	Mother of Pearl
Mozzarella	Mummies
Mushrooms	Napkins
Navy Beans	Noodles
Onion	Paper
Peach (peeled)	Pear (peeled)
Pearls	Peeled Apple
Pho	Plaster
Plastic	Polar Bears
Porcelain	Potato
Rabbits	Radish
Rice	Rice Cakes
Rice Paper	Rice Puddling
Roots	Salt
Sand	Seagulls
Seeds	Shaved Ice
Shaving Cream	Sheep
Sheets / Pillows / Bedding	Shells
Ship Sails	Shuttlecock
Silk	Silkworms
Snow	Snowbells
Snowmen	Snowy Owls
Soap	Sour Cream
Space Suits	Stars
Stucco	Styrofoam
Sugar	Sunlight
Swans	Tartare Sauce
Teeth	Tissues
Titanium Dioxide	Tofu
Toothpaste	Towels
Turnips	Tusks
Udon	Vanilla Ice Cream
Vermicelli	Water Lilies
Wedding Dresses	Whip Cream
White Chocolate	White Daffodil
White Jade	White Roses
White Sauce (Bechamel Sauce)	White Sesame
White Tigers	White Water
White of Eyes	Whiteboards
Whitecaps	Wool
Yoghurt	Zinc

White Foods

White is an extraordinarily common color for food as many basic ingredients such as milk, sugar and flour are often white. In many cases, foods are white inside but not outside such as the inside of an almond, apple or coconut.

White Animals

White coloring can be found in mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects. This can serve as camouflage in snowy environments or can be used to signal dominance by standing out. Some animals are only rarely white such as the white tiger, a rare variation of Bengal tiger. In some cases, white coloration is due to genetic mutations or albinism.

Natural White Things

Things that occur in nature with white coloration. White is the color that human's perceive when all colors of the visible spectrum are present in light. As such, starlight and sunlight are white. This is the reason that highly reflective things such as snow, ice, clouds or the Moon are white.

White Materials

Materials that are naturally white such as gypsum or customarily white such as paper. This list includes things that are white variations such as white gold where gold is more typically a bright yellow.

Other White Things

Other notable white things including mythical things or products that are customarily white such as toothpaste. In some cases, white things symbolize purity and cleanliness because white materials easily show when they are dirty. For example, hotels may use white towels to highlight that the towels are perfectly clean.