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

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 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.

    • candyman337@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 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

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        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.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 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.