Artificial Food Dyes on the Chopping Block: A Health Win or Pricey Change?

Artificial food dyes on the chopping block: A health win or pricey change?

The push to eliminate artificial food dyes from products is gaining momentum across the country, as the Make America Healthy Again initiative has sparked new conversations about what's in our food. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for the phase-out of petroleum-based synthetic dyes by next year.Skepticism of artificial dyes in our food isn't new. But new rules, calls from the federal government and promises fr…

It's time for US petroleum-based food dye usage to, well, die

Dave Dickey, columnist People have been naturally coloring their food for a long, long, LONG time — as far back as 1500 B.C. Centuries later in 1856, William Henry Perking stumbled onto the first synthetic dye derived from coal tar. By 1900, roughly 80 unregulated synthetic dyes were used as food colors including lead, mercury and arsenic.  It wasn’t until 1906 that USDA began to get a handle on poisonous and concealing synthetic food color addi…

Bright colors in your foods may harm your kids

A new study has revealed that nearly one in five packaged foods and drinks in the United States contain synthetic food dyes. Researchers analyzed almost 40,000 grocery store products and found that these artificial colors are still widely used, despite growing concerns about their health effects. The research, published in the Journal of the Academy […] The post Bright colors in your foods may harm your kids appeared first on Knowridge Science R…