Blue and purple corn: Not just for tortilla chips anymore

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 17:51 in Biology & Nature

Consumers today insist on all-natural everything, and food dyes are no exception. Even if food manufacturers are willing to make the change, current sources of natural dyes are expensive and hard to come by. Now, a large University of Illinois project is filling the gap with colored corn.

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