Blue raspberry flavor

A cup of blue raspberry Italian ice at the Taste of Chicago festival

Blue raspberry is a common flavoring for candy, snack foods, syrups and soft drinks. The flavor originates from Rubus leucodermis, more commonly known as the "whitebark raspberry" or "blue raspberry" for the blue-black color of its fruit.^[1]

Food products labeled as blue raspberry flavor often contain a bright blue food coloring,^[2] the most common being Brilliant Blue FCF, although this coloring is not an accurate rendition of the actual color of the fruit, which has an almost black hue when ripe.

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