could be an alternative to synthetic blue food colorings such as the widely used FD&C Blue No. 1. The work is published April 7 in Science Advances. “Blue colors are really quite rare in nature – a ...

A long search for a natural alternative to artificial blue food colouring may have come to an end, with scientists discovering a blue pigment in cabbage that can do the job. Blue pigments are ...

A natural food ... the blue color fades." This research was funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (National Institute of Food and Agriculture), and CHESS is supported by the National Science ...

That complicates the search for natural blue food colorings, but now a team of scientists has found a promising candidate hiding in red cabbage. For decades, concerns have been raised about the ...

Quirks and Quarks8:37‘Where’s the blue food?’ Scientists find source for ... Their study was published in the journal Science Advances. Pam Denish, a biophysics PhD candidate at the ...

While the science underlying “The Blue Food Assessment” is reputable, its lens is narrow, removing blue food from the ecological context it comes from. The blue parts of our planet cycle our ...

Good news, then, for blue food ... can expect from food manufacturers. “The ingredients used in America’s food supply have been rigorously studied following an objective science and risk ...

A new 'healthier blue food colouring' could be possible in the future thanks to a metallic fruit that uses fat and reflection to generate a nutritious blue colour. Most foods lack the pigment ...