Blue raspberry flavor - Wikipedia Blue raspberry flavor A cup of blue raspberry Italian ice at the Taste of Chicago festival Blue raspberry is a common flavoring for candy, snack foods, syrups and soft drinks. The flavor ostensibly originates from Rubus leucodermis, more commonly known as the `` whitebark raspberry '' or `` blue raspberry '' for the blue - black color of its fruit. Food products labeled as blue raspberry flavor often contain a bright blue food coloring, the most common being Brilliant Blue FCF, although this coloring is not an accurate rendition of the actual color of the fruit, which has an almost black hue when ripe. The blue color also helps distinguish raspberry - flavored foods from cherry - and strawberry - flavored foods ( the former usually being colored red, and the latter also sometimes colored red but often colored pink if the same product is also available in a cherry flavor ). References Jump up ^ `` Rubus Leucodermis - Exoplantus ''. exoplantus.fr ( archived August 23, 2011 ). Archived from the original on August 23, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Natural-Food-Color.com ''. Natural-Food-Color.com ( archived September 12, 2012 ). Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2014. External links Media related to Blue raspberry at Wikimedia Commons This food ingredient -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_raspberry_flavor&oldid=801180092 '' Categories : Food additives Flavors Food ingredient stubs Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from July 2016 All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 18 September 2017, at 04 : 11. About Wikipedia

Question: where did the flavor blue raspberry come from
Answer: ostensibly originates from Rubus leucodermis, more commonly known as the "whitebark raspberry" or "blue raspberry" for the blue-black color of its fruit