University of Missouri researchers are turning a unique variety of corn into an effective natural alternative to artificial food dyes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

Scientists have pinpointed the purple sweet potato as a natural alternative for synthetic food dye. While you might be more familiar with the orange-fleshed variety, the purple-hued cousin could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Missouri researchers have developed a purple corn-based food coloring that could give manufacturers a natural ...

Pavel Somavat (left) has joint appointments in the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering. Sherry Flint-Garcia (right) is a research ...