Why aren't there many blue foods?

Question

Although you may find some candy or other sugar-based food that's blue, I cannot think of a single natural food that is blue. The grocery stores basically do not stock blue foods. Why don't people want to eat blue food?

Answer 1

There are blue potatoes and they are yummy. I don't know why there isin't more blue food at stores, it's my favorite color.

Answer 2

Blueberries are not really blue, they are a purple-like-violet.
There are blue-boiler peas but they are really green and just look a little bit blue-like when they are dried and faded.
Hmmm, I guess there is only blue food dye and it must be synthetic. But what did blue dye originally come from - it must have been a plant and could we eat it?

Answer 3

Blue substances tend not to be edible (gasses for example). The substance that makes blueberries blue is only blue in certain circumstances, and that is related to it's Ph.

When the substances aren't edible, they obviously tend not to result in food. That's as far as I can get you without getting existential.

Answer 4

According to the philosopher and public curmudgeon, George Carlin, Blue Food probably bestows immortality, and the government keeps it from us. But that's just one man's theory.

Answer 5

Aside from the blueberries I just think that blue belongs in the sky and the ocean, that's all.

Answer 6

Well i do have to dye most foods blue to make my kids eat them...so we have a small demand i suppose...lol

Answer 7

What about BlueCheese. the cheese is light but has blue streaks of mold.

Answer 8

supposedly, of all the colors in the spectrum, blue is an appetite suppressant.

Answer 9

there are blueberries and blue corn which they make into tortillas and chips...very tasty.

Answer 10

its not a color that occurs naturally in foods...so it is not naturally appealing.