Colours
Colours
Blue
Introduction
Natural Blue Food Colouring: Unlocking blue, naturally
Unlock the elusive beauty of natural blue food colouring for your food and beverage creations. Plant-Ex offers a range of innovative solutions to achieve captivating blue shades, from the delicate sky blue to the deep indigo. We understand the challenges of sourcing stable natural blues and our expertise ensures your products achieve stunning visual appeal, while meeting consumer demand for natural ingredients.
Shade
Spirulina
Derived from Arthrospira Platensis, a type of blue-green algae.
A bright blue colour
pH: Limited
Light: Good
Heat: Limited
Beverages, Dairy, Confectionery, Sports Nutrition
Colour Insight
Knowledge and expertise in natural blue colour technology
Natural blue colour sources are notoriously limited, making their application in food and beverage a complex endeavour. Common challenges include stability issues, pH sensitivity and limited availability. However, Plant-Ex has developed solutions using:
By partnering with Plant-Ex, you gain access to our extensive knowledge and expertise in natural blue colour technology. We empower you to create visually appealing products that resonate with today’s discerning consumer, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and stability. We can also provide alternatives to artificial colours such as Brilliant Blue.
Colour support services
Colour Services
Colour Blending
Unlock the perfect hue with our bespoke colour blending services, tailored specifically for your food or beverage project. We collaborate closely with our clients to craft custom shades that enhance product appeal, meet regulatory standards and maintain consistency within a range of different applications.
Shelf-life testing
Colour stability is essential to achieving a quality end product, and our NPD experts are on hand to ensure that your products look as good on the shelves as they do on the production line. From beverage to bakery, our team can test the stability of colours against challenges such as heat application and photo oxidation, and advise on the most suitable options for your application.
Colour matching
The key to successful colour matching lies in our advanced Colorimetry lab and Spectrophotometry, which precisely identify the target shade. This is followed by the application of our expertise, commitment and decades of industry experience to achieve an exact match. We carefully assess the customer’s application to confirm that the selected solution is the most appropriate.
Application support
If you need assistance with formulating innovative creations, our specialist applications team can assist you in bringing new ideas and concepts to life. We have access to the highest quality data from across the world of food & beverage, enabling us to provide accurate insights into future market trends, and design applications based on real world consumer behaviours.