Beet juice is red. Now chemists turned it blue. It might have potential for consumers like you. Natural colorings for food and cosmetics are in demand. Biology’s blue pigments, however, are tough to ...

What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences worldwide by a large margin. No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is ...

Usually these root vegetables cause pink stains, but with a little bit of chemistry, Brazilian researchers found they could produce another hue. By JoAnna Klein Blue is the color of clear skies and ...

Vic and I had a great week of agricultural and biological adventures with relatives and friends. Last Tuesday, I took my last large beet to the Orange County Fair to enter in the giant beet contest.