Leave Multiple Colors in AE CS5

Hey everyone! I've been hired to shoot a web video for a yogurt shop and they want to do a similar "Leave Colors" effect that they used in their still photographs on their website. Obviously doing this in still form is easier than motion video, but I told them I knew there was a way to do this and I'd figure it out. However there doesn't seem to be many sufficient explanations of how to achieve this effect in CS5.
Where do I begin? I know I can help myself a lot by directing my subjects not to wear similar colors to the yogurt, but that will be somewhat of a challenge with multiple-colored yogurt. Is After Effects CS5 even the best program to use to accomplish this? Thank you so much, everyone!

duplicate your layer, desaturate the bottom one and roto the yogurt and parrot from the top layer, mask the yogurt container since it has pretty simple shape. From the look of the photos, this should be a breeze with roto brush.
Anything like keying, leave color, change to color etc will get you unpredicable results and/or hard to handle.

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