Food Dyes

Food Dyes-Yep, some people break out in hives when given that red popsicle.  Some kids get really irritable with flushed cheeks after those orange colored cheez-its.  Some kids get hyperactive after their antibiotics are dosed.  Did you notice the medicine was pink? We in America will add color to almost anything.  I saw pickle relish dyed purple.  WHY would anyone want to do that?  Or eat that?  But I guess it is ‘fun.’   It’s not fun if you break out in hives or excema or you just feel lousy.  Plus, food dyes are being linked to cancer.  Of course, you may have to eat a lot of dyes to get cancer, but then again, we eat a lot of foods with food dyes.  Did you know that those same food dyes are banned from children’s foods in Europe and Great Britain because of the research on food dyes and behavior?  Did you know that major food manufacturers in the United States make foods without those dyes to ship to Europe and Great Britain, yet still add it the foods they sell here?  Makes me crazy.

I went out to buy all-natural organic food dyes, but they were exhorbitantly expensive.  We went home and made red dye from beet juice.  I am working on some other colors.  I occasionally let the kid and company indulge in sprinkles on cupcakes, but not much.  Food dyes scare me.  I may start a business of making and selling natural food dyes.  Color is fun, but cancer is not. 

Here is an article from Allergy Kids.

http://www.allergykids.com/blog/seeing-red/

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