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Red cabbage could be the key to developing a natural cyan blue food coloring
Finding a natural cyan blue dye that is equivalent to FD&C Blue No. 1 has been a challenge for the entire industry and the subject of research programs around the world. Now, an international team of researchers has discovered a promising cyan blue dye that is obtained naturally from the pigments of red cabbage that, if proven to be safe for food use, will be the best natural alternative to the blue coloring of food.
The study was carried out with some of the red cabbage s water-soluble pigments, anthocyanins, which are mainly red and purple. In this type of cabbage, natural blue is only found in small amounts and it is too violet to replace the artificial coloring. For a decade, a team led by scientists from the Mars Advanced Research Institute and Mars Wrigley Science and Technology has worked in collaboration with the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, Ohio State University, Nagoya Unive
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A pigment found in red cabbage could be used to make a long-lasting and stable natural blue color for food, according to new research published in the Science Advances journal.
The study was done by researchers from Mars Wrigley s science and technology team; the Mars Advanced Research Institute (MARI); University of California, Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health; Ohio State University; Nagoya University in Japan; University of Avignon in France; and SISSA University in Italy. It was funded by MARI and Mars Wrigley Science and Technology.
While many food companies have been moving toward natural colors, finding a natural replacement for blue has been particularly challenging. But food and ingredients manufacturers have been trying. According to an emailed statement from Mars Wrigley Senior Principal Scientist Rebecca Robbins, the team that published the report has been doing this research for more than a decade.
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A natural brilliant blue coloring has been discovered by an international team of researchers including chemists at the University of California, Davis. The new cyan blue, obtained from red cabbage, 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 lot of them are really reds and purples, said Pamela Denish, a graduate student working with Professor Justin Siegel at the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and Innovation Institute for Food and Health.