Stop-sign-red lollipops, violet gummy snacks, neon green popsicles and bright blue sports drinks. Artificial food coloring can make foods more enticing, especially for kids. But is food dye bad ...

Natural food colorings are in demand, but blue colors are rare in nature Researchers identified a natural blue anthocyanin in red cabbage UC Davis chemists developed an enzyme to make the blue color ...

You've probably heard about the nationwide debate on the safety of food dyes. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed ...

And will consumers, raised on color-popping cereals, flame-colored nacho chips and neon blue ... food companies attended the news conference, and few have said they will remove synthetic colors ...

The researchers have founded a startup company called Peak B to attempt to commercialize the new natural blue food coloring.

What foods and drinks look like — the colors we see before the first morsels ... like candies or desserts in an electric blue or neon pink. Think blue raspberry Slurpee or Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

What foods and drinks look like — the colors we see before the first morsels ... like candies or desserts in an electric blue or neon pink. Think “blue raspberry Slurpee” or “Flamin ...

If the blue isn't right, it will produce muddy, brown colors when mixed, Siegel said. Red cabbage extracts are widely used as a source of natural food colorings, especially reds and purples.

Companies make packaged food without synthetic dyes in other ... purple, yellow and blue — neon colors derived from synthetic dyes, like Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Blue No. 1 and Yellow No ...