Blue Heirloom Popcorn is known for its striking kernel color and slightly sweet flavor. Though the kernels are bluish-purple before popping, they open into white popcorn that is crisp, satisfying, and easy to season.
This variety is also known as Shaman’s Blue popcorn, a type of blue corn. Blue corn has roots in the Andes Mountains of Peru and was later widely used by Indigenous peoples of Mexico and the southwestern United States, where its dryness made it useful as a flour corn and helped give it strong disease resistance.