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Colored fruit snacks, drinks and other familiar items that we reach for without so much as a second thought. These foodstuffs are often high in sugar, and for that reason, maybe you avoid them.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) detailed the risks of nine widely used food dyes. These nine dyes alone are pumped into foods each year Over 15 million pounds by the Big Food industry.

CSPI found, three of the dyes contain known carcinogens, and four are known to cause serious allergic reactions in some consumers. Seven of the nine food dyes have been found to contribute to cancer in lab animals, including brain and testicular tumors, colon cancer and other mutations.

Regularly used food dyes, which are Yellow 5 and Yellow 6, and Red 40, pose risks including hyperactivity in children. Some also pose a risk of cancer like Red 3 and allergic reactions.

FDA to ban the use of artificial coloring agents that have known side effects. The European Union and the British government have already taken steps toward ending the use of these harmful ingredients in food, and many artificial dyes have been banned overseas.

Actually FDA has recognized that Red 3 is a carcinogen, and that several other colorants contain cancer-causing ingredients. In spite of this, the federal agency has not moved forward with any kind of legislation on these food additives.

In 2016, CSPI called out major manufacturers such as Coca Cola, McDonald's and others for serving their American backer foods that had been pumped full of artificial colorants they know are toxic, while British and European consumers providing naturally colored or color-free versions of the same foods.

Petroleum based colorants Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 produce harmful effects in laboratory studies. These three colorants contain illegally high amounts of benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl, both of which are known carcinogens.

 

These and other toxic food colorants are in nearly everything the average American eats.