Monday, March 10, 2008

Jelly Bellys

People tend to associate food with color. Everything we buy and eat has a distinguished color, shape, and form to it. As we grow we learn to match colors to certain foods allowing us to tell what it is. For example, we know the fruit with a deep purple blue color is a plum, a banana is yellow, and a watermelon is green and red-pink. Some food items like candy, have the flavoring of foods without looking like the food itself. There for they distinguish the flavor through color.
Jelly belly's are the perfect example of using color to detect flavor. Jelly belly's have fifty different flavors and fifty different colors. Each color of the jelly bean follows the generic color of the food. For instance, popcorn is white with yellow for the butter, the bean is white with yellow speckles.

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