Blue raspberry flavor


Blue raspberry is a manufactured flavoring and food coloring for candy, snack foods, syrups, and soft drinks. The flavor does not derive from any species of raspberry, but rather was developed using esters that are part of the flavor profile of pineapple, banana and cherry. Sugar is commonly added to create taste appeal for the blueraspberry flavor.
Food products labeled as blue raspberry flavor are commonly dyed with a brightblue synthetic, such as —also called or European food coloring numberE133.
The blue color was used to differentiate raspberry-flavored foods from cherry-, watermelon-, and strawberry-flavored foods, each of which is typicallyred. The use of bluedye also partially is due to the DrugAdministration's 1976banning of amaranth-based, which had previously been heavilyused in raspberry-flavored products.

Composition

"Blue raspberry" flavors used in confectionery and frozen beverages are typically formulated from aroma chemicals blended to suggest fresh raspberry, and then colored with.

History

Blue raspberry flavoring debuted commercially in the United States in 1958 with snow cone syrup. Its wider adoption followed the DrugAdministration's 1969approval of. This regulatory change encouraged other companies, including and, to introduce blueraspberry products in the early1970s.