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Eh, black has its place compared to blue or that weird off white.

It actually shows some things better, though it is a niche situation.

I don't think it matters much at all for home use, obviously. I see where you're coming from with food services. But in a clinical setting, you run into advantages, particularly in wound care and personal care (bathing and hygiene).

White absolutely isn't better when working with patients. For one thing, you'll be changing gloves often enough color rarely matters anyway (or you should be). But white is going to be tinged closer to skin tone once on, and that's not helpful at all. You want contrast, and that's where blue comes in as superior. Anything made by the body is going to usually contrast with blue better than clear/white.

Black becomes useful specifically when dealing with larger wound beds, particularly those with poor visibility in the deeper sections. The ability to see what is you vs what is the patient's tissues is better with black than blue, at least in my experience. It was also the default color handed out to two different companies for wound care, so it isn't purely my opinion.

A secondary benefit is for in home care with wound care. Once the work is done, they show less of the body fluids during disposal, so when family is seeing the gloves, they aren't seeing as much blood and tissue. Again, really niche, but it's a benefit.

If I was to rank the common disposable glove colors for medical and food use, I'd rank blue as the best, then black, then the more standard latex color, with clear being the least beneficial. I've only rarely seen actual white gloves of any material (they were polyurethane).

But even that is general purpose, because each of the common colors has places they work better than the others by some thin margin.

What I hate about the black gloves is the police side of things, where I suspect the color is chosen for it's psychological impact rather than anything else.

But, legit, when I buy gloves for myself to use at home, I get either blue or black, whichever I can get cheaper at the time. They're just the most versatile in terms of having a benefit based on color, and they're the most common nitrile options. If I have to get latex, I tend to go with the standard color because they're the cheapest usually. Right now, I've got a half box of blue left, plus the half dozen boxes of black I lucked into a great deal on.