You know how some people claim to be able to taste the difference between different food-colored M&Ms? Or how the green ones make you look like a sad pervert?
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, may have found a link between the dye used to make M&Ms look blue and reducing spinal injuries. (Goodbye, lumbago!)
Known as Brilliant Blue G or BBG, which still doesn’t explain the G, the dye is oxidized ATP, which is an abbreviation in which all the letters really mean something. This oxidized stuff blocks the non-oxidized stuff that the body normally dispatches to a spinal injury scene from making it worse.
The most noticeable side effect from blocking your body’s stupid is turning it blue. Willy Wonka is reportedly kicking himself for giving his flawed gum formula away to his competitors, Mars, Inc.