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Why would garlic in a salad dressing turn bright blue?

I made a salad dressing with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, garlic cloves chopped into halves, fresh ginger, mixed herbs and mustard powder. When the dressing was finished I put a lidded jar of it in the fridge, and two days later topped it up again with fresh ingredients.

The following day the garlic from the original batch had turned bright blue. Why?

Ellice Bourke, Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia


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Subsequent to my previous response I discovered at

http://everything2.com/title/Garlic+oil

that the reaction that produces the blue colouration may produce toxins making me wonder if the blue colour is prussian blue or a derivative.

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