I recently realized that all the food I really like is orange.
Orange is also my favorite color. Coincidence??? Perhaps, or perhaps not.
After all, people seem to prefer their favorite color of every object, whether or not color actually affects functionality (Read: early Apple iBooks).
However, maybe food is different. People seem associate the "correct" color of a food with the food being good and unspoiled. So, while you'd think someone whose favorite color is green would like green-dyed cookies....
...It doesn't really work that way.
With kids, though, food-dyed objects are often a great success:
My theory is that we form very strong associations between food and colors as we grow up. Foods that look a certain way should also taste a certain way. (Kids are awesome, because they don't really have this association totally solidified yet.)
I actually think many foods of certain colors fall into certain taste/health categories:
The colors shown above align like this, to give us The Colorful Food Map of Colors:
I like the color orange, and I also like sweet healthy foods. So this makes sense. But is perhaps coincidental, because I know many people who like the color green, but prefer foods in the brown/unhealthy/sweet category.
The most obvious thing about this chart, though, is that blue is missing! I honestly couldn't think of any foods that were naturally blue, other than blueberries. And Quadrant I was already getting crowded, so I decided to leave berries off the list. So sad.
Sorry, blue!
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