‘Healthy’ blue food colouring could soon be brightening up our dinner plates – Brinkwire

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 needed to produce blue naturally, but researchers from the University of Cambridge found a shrub that uses a technique for generating the colour similar to that used by birds, beetles and butterflies.
The Viburnum tinus is an evergreen shrub widespread across the UK and Europe that uses fats or lipids in…

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