Tag: food dyes

How Much Food Dyes Are in M & M’s?

How Much Food Dyes Are in M & M’s?

[ 3 ] May 8, 2011 |

What is inside the candy shell? “Dark Chocolate Inside A Colorful Candy Shell” is what you read on every M & M’s container. Very good, but many customers would like to know what is inside the candy shell too! Here is what and how the DyeDiet has discovered. The candies were separated by colors, weighted […]

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Potato chips

Potato chips

[ 6 ] April 14, 2011 |

Ruffles, Pringles and Terra chips: Risk and Nutrition Chips belong to a snack food category which is often considered as a junk food because of generally low nutritional value. Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream Health Risk Score, DDRS ~ 94 Health risks of this Frito-Lay, Inc. product come from 5 foreign additives (red segments, 36), […]

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How Much Dyes Do We Eat?

How Much Dyes Do We Eat?

[ 1 ] April 8, 2011 |

FDA Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of the Food Dyes According to the CSPI, total amount of colors certified by the FDA in the Fiscal Year of 2009 was 15,016.634 pounds or 6,817.552 kg or 6,800 tons that were all eaten by the US public (see food-dyes-rainbow-of-risks). This means 6,817.552/300 millions ~ 23 g per capita. Isn’t this too much? Let us […]

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