diff --git a/checks/food-trend.mjs b/checks/food-trend.mjs
index baa23a1..1b6046f 100644
--- a/checks/food-trend.mjs
+++ b/checks/food-trend.mjs
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ suite("what the sentence is allowed to say");
             "foodTrendMoves", "foodSeriesSentences", "foodSeriesFor"],
     stubs: {
       liveFoodKinds: () => kinds,
+      loadFoodKinds: () => kinds,
       foodKindNames: () => new Map(kinds.map(k => [k.id, k.name])),
     },
   });
@@ -203,12 +204,16 @@ suite("what the sentence is allowed to say");
       names: ["NO_KIND", "FOOD_COLORS", "foodTrend", "foodSeriesFor"],
       stubs: {
         liveFoodKinds: () => [],
-        foodKindNames: () => new Map([["gone", "Old recipe"]]),
+        // The tombstone: gone from the picker, still carrying name and colour.
+        loadFoodKinds: () => [{ id: "gone", name: "Old recipe", colorIndex: 2, deleted: true }],
       },
     });
     const days = byKind([{ gone: 100 }, { gone: 110 }, { gone: 120 }, { gone: 130 }, { gone: 0 }]);
-    eq(namesOnly.foodSeriesFor(days).map(s => s.name), ["Old recipe"],
+    const series = namesOnly.foodSeriesFor(days);
+    eq(series.map(s => s.name), ["Old recipe"],
        "it keeps its name rather than vanishing or reading as 'No kind'");
+    eq(series[0].colorIndex, 2,
+       "…and its colour, which grey would confuse with the 'No kind' series");
   }
 
   suite("the caption stays bounded as kinds are added");
diff --git a/src/app.js b/src/app.js
index 35aacd6..b5b8219 100644
--- a/src/app.js
+++ b/src/app.js
@@ -2068,7 +2068,9 @@
   // With no kinds defined this returns a single unnamed series, which is what
   // makes the whole feature invisible to anyone not using it.
   function foodSeriesFor(days) {
-    const names = foodKindNames();
+    // Every kind ever, tombstones included — a deleted one keeps both its name
+    // and its colour, which is what lets its food stay identifiable below.
+    const all = new Map(loadFoodKinds().map(k => [k.id, k]));
     const used = (id) => days.some(d => (d.gramsByKind?.[id] || 0) > 0);
     const out = [];
     for (const k of liveFoodKinds()) {
@@ -2079,13 +2081,19 @@
       });
     }
     // Kinds deleted since, but still on meals in this window: their food is
-    // real and has to appear somewhere, under the name the tombstone kept.
+    // real and has to appear somewhere, under the name and colour the tombstone
+    // kept. Falling back to grey here would be wrong twice over — it is also
+    // "No kind"'s colour, so the two series would be indistinguishable in both
+    // the stack and the legend.
     for (const d of days) {
       for (const id of Object.keys(d.gramsByKind || {})) {
         if (id === NO_KIND || out.some(s => s.id === id)) continue;
         if (!used(id)) continue;
+        const gone = all.get(id);
         out.push({
-          id, name: names.get(id) || "Deleted kind", colorIndex: null,
+          id,
+          name: gone?.name || "Deleted kind",
+          colorIndex: gone ? (gone.colorIndex ?? 0) : null,
           of: (dd) => dd.gramsByKind?.[id] || 0,
         });
       }