A friend of mine from New York City called the other day and said he had seen a report that the Midwest had yellowing corn. He had thought to himself, “Isn’t corn supposed to be yellow?” It gave me a ...

Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. Shortly after, the company that sells the rare ...

Blue and purple corn may not spring to mind as a ‘must buy’ food but there seems to be a market for it. Having differently colored tortilla chips has been around for a while, but there seems to be a ...

Consumers today insist on all-natural everything, and food dyes are no exception. Even if food manufacturers are willing to make the change, current sources of natural dyes are expensive and hard to ...

University of Missouri researchers and a collaborator from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are studying and adapting a purple corn known as Maiz Morado, which not ...