Where does blue raspberry flavor come from?

Moment of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

There are lots of foods that are blue-raspberry flavored, like candy, popsicles, or fizzy drinks. But there’s no such thing as a blue raspberry…so where does that flavor come from? We asked food scientist Adam Johnson to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:04.8	Answering those questions that make you go,
0:07.2	um.
0:08.2	Ah, uh, um, um.
0:11.1	Um, um, um.
0:11.8	Um, um, um, um, um, moment, um, uh, um, um, comes to you from APM studios. I'm Anna Goldfield.
0:27.0	Oh, boy, oh boy, I am so excited about what's in this box. It's the latest shipment from my
0:37.6	improbable flavors of the Month Club. Every month, I get a new box full of unusually flavored snacks, candies, and other nibbles.
0:46.2	You know, flavors you might not find in regular fruits and veggies at the grocery store.
0:51.1	Last month, the flavor theme was the color orange. There were
0:56.0	spicy carrot lollipops that tasted like a hot summer day. Sticky sweet potato
1:01.4	caramels that glued my teeth shut for 20 minutes, no regrets, delicious,
1:06.0	and these crispy orange mushrooms that tasted exactly like getting a really good high five.
1:13.0	Let's see, looks like,
1:16.0	ooh, this month's flavor theme is blue.
1:20.0	We've got blue Cheese Blueberry Bites.
1:24.0	Oh, whoa, that is stink horrific.
1:28.0	And, wait, Blue Raspberry Jam?
1:31.0	I know these are supposed to be improbable flavors, but never have I ever heard of an actual blue raspberry.
1:38.0	So where does that flavor come from?
1:41.0	Sawyer had the same question. Where does blue
1:44.1	raspberry flavor come from if there aren't actual blue raspberries in nature?
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