Green with envy. Seeing red. Feeling blue. Colors have had symbolic and figurative meaning in poetry and art for all of human history. And color links art and the natural sciences, since various elements and natural materials, when ground down and suspended in an oil medium, create vividly colored paints.
You’ve read about some of the highest-profile color developments in recent years, like the 2014 introduction of Vantablack by U.K.-based Surrey NanoSystems. When Anish Kapoor secured the exclusive rights to the stuff, artists were enraged, and Stuart Semple even introduced his own “pinkest pink,” available to all artists except Kapoor.
The quest to create new colors and new uses for them goes on, apart from the splashy black hue. Here are four discoveries made in the new millennium.
1. A unique new blue food dye
What: After a decade of research, a globe-spanning collaboration by confectioners Mars Wrigley and scientists at five universities have developed a new blue food colorant made from red cabbage, saying they’ve beat a number of research programs worldwide to the punch.
When: 2021
Where to find it: There aren’t that many blue food dyes, and the ones that exist are synthetic ones that many food makers hope to remove from their products. There’s more research to come, but scientific lead Pamela Denish tells Food Navigator they’re looking into applying it to baked goods, so maybe we’ll all soon be developing blue sourdough while we hide from Omicron!
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