J.M. Smucker plans to remove artificial colors from its jams and other products
J.M. Smucker plans to remove artificial colors from its jams and other products
Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes.
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Companies announcing this like they're doing it because it's good when it's really it's because of a hair brained mandate by RFK
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
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.
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
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.
Yes that is also a concern, I agree
Haven't artificial dyes been banned from most countries because they cause cancer and shit? Fuck RFK but this one seems actually beneficial.
Not all artificial dyes. I'm sure some have. And some natural dyes, like logwood, are toxic.
That's not even remotely true