If you’ve ever been demolishing some fruit and wondered why blueberries are their distinctive color, then you might be interested in a new study from the University of Bristol. Rox Middleton, from Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences, hopped to uncover why blueberries are blue despite the red pigment in their skin. Her findings were published today in Science Advances. Why are blueberries blue?Blueberries are as they are described because of a layer of wax that surrounds the fruit. This second skin is made from miniature structures that scatter both blue and UV light, resulting in blue colo…