The Truth About Blue Foods

The Truth About Blue Foods

It’s been well-known to my friends, students, and people in my social circle that I am not a fan of blue foods. Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid blue foods.

People ask why? I say because there’s no such thing as blue food.

Then, of course, everybody has their comeback of blueberries are blue.

Are blueberries actually blue?

No, they aren’t. They are purple on the outside and green on the inside. Look closely.

When I make a smoothie with blueberries, it’s purple.

When I have infused water with blueberries, it’s purple. Not once has it ever come out blue.

What other blue foods are there?  

Blue Raspberry? Not a thing in real life.

Blue cheese? Is mold considered “food”?

Blue corn? Isn’t that more of a purplish-gray color?

There are purple sweet potatoes. There are plenty of purple-colored foods, but in reality, there is not many are not many blue foods that occur in nature that eat.

There are plenty of artificially colored blue foods: blue frosting, blue M&M’s, blue Gatorade, blue Powerade, plenty of blue drinks, and plenty of blue foods, yet not one of them is naturally occurring.

You can even find pictures of bright blue strawberries on the internet, which you know is factual at all times. But those don’t exist either. So unless you’ve seen them in person, they are unlikely to be confirmed. There is more evidence to suggest that they aren’t real. 

Blue is a sign of poison in nature, at least for humans.

I welcome comments and arguments challenges to this post. 

Yet most people have never been able to convince me that blue foods do occur in nature. At least blue foods that humans can and will eat. The emphasis is on nature. So please don’t offer me a Cookie Monster-decorated cookie. I won’t eat it, sorry. 

Yet somehow, I do make an exception for blue-colored M&M’s, but we know in real life that candy with hard coated shell doesn’t occur in nature either.