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[doogdilinger]

lmao hilarious wimusky;)

[WeeZuhl]

It just shouldn't be this easy.

Doog- I heard the FDA is considering that M&Ms carry a warning label that excessive use of said product may cause sepsis and subsequent death! Bahahahah!!!!!

Keep them coming! Thanks for the help.




New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food-coloring-mars-company.html

The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M

By MALIA WOLLAN
OCT. 5, 2016


In response to growing pressure from consumers across the globe, Mars announced in February that over the next five years it would remove artificial colors from all the processed foods it makes for human consumption, and that pigments found in natural substances would take their place. This research kitchen is where scientists are now cautiously tinkering with the chemistry of some of America’s most celebrated candies.

Mars has joined a growing list of global food manufacturers removing artificial dyes from some or all of their products. The companies include Nestlé USA, General Mills, Kraft, Frito-Lay, Campbell’s, Kellogg’s and Mondelez International (the maker of Oreos, Tang and Sour Patch Kids). The orange glow of Kraft’s revamped macaroni and cheese now comes from paprika, turmeric and annatto, a coloring extracted from tree seeds. General Mills experimented with 69 different natural dyes before it released a naturally colored Trix and six other reconfigured cereals in January. (The company was unable to find a workable blue or green, so those colors have been left out for now.)

In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration approved Mars’s petition to use the microscopic algae spirulina to make the first natural blue dye approved for use in the United States. As a result, any food manufacturer in the country can legally use spirulina as a colorant. Mars spent years researching spirulina’s safety; in order to overhaul 1,700 or so recipes and update its global manufacturing capabilities, the company desperately needs a substitute for synthetic Blue No. 1, as does the rest of the industry. But right now, there isn’t nearly enough spirulina dye to go around — and in any case, sometimes it doesn’t yield just the right blue, or the color degrades and comes out blotchy, or it tastes odd. So researchers are still looking everywhere for other natural blue pigments.

There are things we still don’t know about how artificial colors interact with the human body. Research shows that Blue No. 1 is the only dye that crosses the blood-brain barrier, which exists to protect the brain from toxins and pathogens. It enters the fluid inside the skull, but scientists know almost nothing about what it does once it’s there. Rather than continue to defend themselves against these growing concerns, big food companies last year began making public commitments to give up synthetic dyes.