Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes.

  • Forester@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    I mean he’s a crazy nut but I’m kind of behind this one. I do not think we should be dying our food to make it look more palatable

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      3 days ago

      Removing artificial coloring doesn’t mean they’ll no longer be dyeing food, it means they’ll be using bugs (cochineal) and algae to do it, along with other natural dyes.

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        3 days ago

        Yes thank you all this changes is it’ll be harder for brands to produce dues and that cost will be passed onto the customer

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          If it was just a cost thing I wouldn’t necessarily mind, but it hasn’t been established that natural dyes are always safer than artificial ones. Sometimes taking a lot of a natural thing and concentrating it also concentrates what would otherwise be a low level contaminant that wasn’t concerning, because you’d never consume enough of the non-concentrated thing for it to matter.

      • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Haven’t artificial dyes been banned from most countries because they cause cancer and shit? Fuck RFK but this one seems actually beneficial.