I asked this question before and for some reason people took it the wrong way. Why dont we eat/produce food?

Question

that is the colour blue?

Answer 1

i eat blue food?!?!? its the only food i will eat

Answer 2

Purple Monstrosity Fruit Smoothie

"This is a great smoothie for breakfast - and sometimes dinner! You can substitute the orange juice with any mix of juices or even soy milk! The soy milk adds more of a milk shake quality than the juice does."

INGREDIENTS
· 2 frozen bananas, skins removed and cut in chunks
· 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
· 1 cup orange juice
· 1 tablespoon honey (optional)
· 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

DIRECTIONS
1. Place bananas, blueberries and juice in a blender, puree. Use honey and/or vanilla to taste. Use more or less liquid depending on the thickness you want for your smoothie.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Purple-Monstrosity-Fruit-Smoothie/Detail.aspx


BLUEBERRY LEMONADE

Makes 2 generous quarts

1 cup sugar
6 cups water
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
1 pint fresh blueberries, rinsed
1 cup fresh lemon juice (about 6 large lemons)
Ice
Springs of fresh mint (for garnish)

Mix the sugar, water, and lemon zest in a saucepan. Warm over medium0high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Once the sugar has completely dissolved, remove the pan from the heat and pour the mixture into a large glass pitcher. Refrigerate for at least an hour.
Meanwhile, make sure all the stems have been picked off the blueberries. Combine the berries with the lemon juice in a blender and puree. Add to the pitcher and stir well to blend. Skim the excess blueberry skins off the top, or pour the lemonade through a sieve to remove all the skins if desired. (The lemonade can be fully prepared and refrigerated the day before serving.)
Pour Blueberry Lemonade over tall, ice-filled glasses, garnish each one with a sprig of mint, and serve.
More ideas:
Serve as an exceptionally refreshing mixer for vodka or gin
Freeze in ice-cube trays to ornament tall glasses of classic lemonade
Add more whole blueberries and freeze as Popsicles
http://www.balduccis.com/recipes/index.html#blueberry

Answer 3

Various tests have shown that blue is the least appetising colour for food to be. This may be a throw back to days when the colour of meat was an indicator of its freshness; blue meat would be very rotten indeed.
In terms of berries, most of the seriously toxic berries are purplish blue, even though things like blackeberries and blue berries are that colour, many poisonous berries look enough like edible ones for there to be a residual caution in eating them. Belladonna berries look scrumptious; pulped they turn a glorious blueish purple, but they'll kill.

Answer 4

Its like asking why shouldnt we eat off blue plates. Colour affect our mood, and blue is supposed to be depressive. So I guess we just avoid it. Also it has a lot to do with photothinsesiss (I have a listhp). Plants can only use the sunlight if they are certain colours.

Answer 5

We DO eat and produce blue food. There is blue yogurt, blue Jell-O, blue Gatorade, blue pudding. Just about anything that comes in any other color, can now be found also in blue.

Maybe it was after George Carlin did his rant on how we never see blue food, maybe not, but sometime in the mid-90's... maybe earlier? Food companies began putting out blue food...

Usually it is given a flavor called "blue raspberry."

Of course, it isn't a "naturally" blue food... but it IS produced... and it IS blue... and I HAVE EATEN it.

Answer 6

There are blue foods as previous answers have pointed out- but I think the reason we are not attracted to it is because we subconsciously associate it with the colour of rotting flesh, and we have evolved to avoid this as it is a potential health hazard.

Answer 7

Blueberries

Answer 8

An interesting question that I am sure has no clear answer, save there are few of them. Other than blueberries, I have only seen a bluish coloured potato. Not bad, either.
--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 9

Processed food is normally coloured to imitate the natural. There is little food whose natural colour is blue, hence packers and processors do not produce blue food.
'Use your common' as my grandmother would have said.

Answer 10

there are no natural blue foods in nature. blueberries are not actually blue. This is why blue food colouring is cheaper than other food colourings.

Answer 11

I think it's because blue food colouring sends some people loopy... well some kids go mental with it.