(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- We eat first with our eyes, as the saying goes. It’s no surprise, then, that the food industry spends countless hours creating the ideal shades that we will see when we open a package.

Everyone from the chefs to the marketing department want the food to look appealing and uniform, but color specialists understand how much more goes into ensuring a bottle of soda has the brand’s signature hue. Food-industry color control is a detailed process that includes tracking from the test kitchen to the final production line and can determine how a product is received in the marketplace.

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