All-natural blue pigment found in red cabbage could replace artificial food coloring dye
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Scientists discover new natural blue food colouring from red cabbage
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Natural blue color from red cabbage could replace artificial food dye Dan Avery For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Blue is the world s most popular color but the hue rarely appears in nature, so manufacturers have had to resort to artificial dyes and chemicals to create blue food.
That could soon change, now that a naturally occurring blue pigment has been discovered in red cabbage.
Scientists with the Mars candy corporation found traces of anthocyanin - a pigment that gives red, purple, blue and black foods their color - that was coded blue.
They were able to increase that amount by treating the cabbage s red-colored anthocyanins with a designer enzyme that turned them blue.