A recent analysis found that 19% of items from major manufacturers use them. And those products weren’t just colorful — they often contained more added sugar, too. A new analysis of nearly 40,000 ...
Philadelphia, June 25, 2025 – As many as 19% of packaged foods and beverages sold by top US food manufacturers contain synthetic food dyes, according to new research evaluating the content of 39,763 ...
Major American brands have vowed to remove synthetic food dyes from their products, but M&M’s and Skittles, made by Mars, remain colorful holdouts. Mars has continued to use synthetic dyes in its ...
There’s a good possibility tomatoes are about to get more expensive. Bloomberg reports a decades-long deal with Mexico expires in less than a week, and this affects U.s. tomato importer Nature Sweet, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Food maker Mondelez, which manufactures brightly colored Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish candies, is actively working to switch to natural dyes for products that use synthetic ...
Odds are, something in your pantry is colored with petroleum. Synthetic dyes — which give fruit snacks their bright colors and cereals their rainbow crunch — are embedded into the everyday foods that ...
In January 1976, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned a popular and well-studied chemical used in food: Red 2. Food colorants have long been contentious, misunderstood and a target for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a press conference on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a plan to start phasing ...
Brightly colored snacks, candies, and juices may be visually appealing, but the synthetic dyes that give many of these foods their hue have been linked to a number of potential health problems. About ...
In one of the anonymous industrial parks that dot New Jersey between Newark and Trenton, as many as 10 billion pouches of Welch’s Fruit Snacks fly off the conveyor belts every year. For almost a ...
Since becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken aim at coloring compounds in foods, drinks, and medical products, claiming that they can compromise ...