i do not ever remember seeing colored flakes in any of it. but then i have only been doing this since the mid eighties. so i am not a real veteran of reloading. my late uncle was a real veteran. i remember some of his stuff back in the early 1970's. he had been doing it a long time at that point. in any case, reloder 7 is one of the most versatile powders around. it is one of the few powders that i really should be buying in 8 pound containers.