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If you’ve paid attention to the recent furor around the use of artificial colors in all kinds of processed foods and drinks, you’re probably ready to yank those products out of your kitchen for good. That it, if you can find suitable replacements.

The neat thing about most organic foods is that most do not use any artificial colors or flavors — they are more of a “true” taste of what the product should be, instead of using cancer-causing chemicals to flavor and color foods to make them appeal to the eye and taste buds. But remember, those looks and tastes can be completely fake.

Why not spend a little of this weekend going through your pantry and seeing how many foods in there have artificial colors? They’re easy to spot, with most ingredient labels using words like “FD&C” and “Blue Lake” or “Yellow Lake” (whatever “Lake means, I don’t know).

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Original post by Brian White

Filed under: Thought for the Day

If you’ve paid attention to the recent furor around the use of artificial colors in all kinds of processed foods and drinks, you’re probably ready to yank those products out of your kitchen for good. That it, if you can find suitable replacements.

The neat thing about most organic foods is that most do not use any artificial colors or flavors — they are more of a “true” taste of what the product should be, instead of using cancer-causing chemicals to flavor and color foods to make them appeal to the eye and taste buds. But remember, those looks and tastes can be completely fake.

Why not spend a little of this weekend going through your pantry and seeing how many foods in there have artificial colors? They’re easy to spot, with most ingredient labels using words like “FD&C” and “Blue Lake” or “Yellow Lake” (whatever “Lake means, I don’t know).

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Original post by Brian White