Butterfly Pea Flower Colors Cereals, FDA Confirms
Published Date: 8/21/2025
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Summary
The FDA is making it official: starting June 26, 2025, butterfly pea flower extract can be safely used as a natural color in lots of tasty snacks like cereals, chips, and pretzels. This means food makers can add this vibrant blue color while following good manufacturing rules. Snack lovers and manufacturers alike get a colorful boost with no extra costs or delays!
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Butterfly Pea Color Approved For Snacks
Starting June 26, 2025, the FDA allows butterfly pea flower extract to be used as a color additive at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice in ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips. You may see these snack foods colored with butterfly pea flower extract after that date.
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