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As a child, I gravitated towards anything blue. It wasn’t necessarily for the flavor, most often labeled as the mysterious “blue raspberry,” a fruit which, spoiler alert, doesn’t actually exist in the wild. No, my fascination with cobalt Popsicles and blueberry-hued candy was all about the novelty — oh, and the fact that after eating that blue lollipop from the bank teller, the inside of my mouth looked like I licked a Smurf.

This attraction to blue foods seems to hold true for kids today: My nephew is a toddler of few words, but two of them are “bwoo pop” and, when making frosting with my 4-year-old niece recently, she immediately reached for the blue food coloring.

I, however, winced at the thought of eating something blue. “Here’s the red,” I offered, pushing the small pointy bottle towards her. Blue foods may have been alluring to my kid-self, but my cravings seem to have desisted sometime around puberty.

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