Ann Reardon

Are Food Colours Bad for you?

 
Just in case you want to do more reading on this topic here are the references used for this episode:

Taste the toxin? Skittles ‘unfit for human consumption’, lawsuit claims
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/15/skittles-mars-lawsuit-titanium-dioxide-toxin

The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M, Wollan
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food-coloring-mars-company.html

Mars faces lawsuit over titanium dioxide, Gelski
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/21818-mars-faces-lawsuit-over-titanium-dioxide

Discovery of a natural cyan blue: A unique food-sourced anthocyanin could replace synthetic brilliant blue – SCIENCE ADVANCES, 7 Apr 2021, Vol 7, Issue 15, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe7871
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe7871

Red No. 2, a food coloring consumed daily by millions of Americans, was tested time and again for safety. Yet now, nearly a century after its introduction, the Government’s top regulatory officials have concluded that its safety remains uncertain. Philip M. Boffey, The New York Times, Feb. 29, 1976

Food and Drug Administration’s Regulation of Food Additives, Published: Jan 13, 1977. https://www.gao.gov/assets/100521.pdf

F.D.I. Bans Use of Red No. 4 Dye And Carbon Black in Food Items, New York Times, Sept. 23, 1976

Naturally Sourced Colours, Biocon Colors

Natural Colors

Safety Data Sheet Carbon Black, July 19, 2021
https://cancarb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Cancarb_SDS_English.pdf

FDA Color Additive Status List
https://www.fda.gov/industry/color-additive-inventories/color-additive-status-list

Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee,
Bee Wilson, 2008
http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8723.pdf

Pisum Sativum ( Prussian Blue Shelling Pea )

Pisum sativum ( Prussian Blue Shelling Pea )

Prussian Blue Pea
Prussian Blue Pea

Mars, Incorporated to remove all artificial colors from its human food portfolio
https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases/remove-artificial-colors

11 Food Ingredients Banned Outside the U.S. That We Eat, ABC News, Susanna Kim, June 26, 2013
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/Food/11-foods-banned-us/story?id=19457237#:~:text=Norway%20banned%20almost%20all%20food,as%20the%20EU%2C (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit)%20he%20added.

Food Standards Australia, New Zealand, SURVEY OF ADDED COLOURS IN FOODS AVAILABLE IN
AUSTRALIA
https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science/surveillance/documents/Colours%20Survey_Final%20Report%2022%20Oct%2008%20(2).pdf

Cochineal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal

Prevalence of Artificial Food Colors in Grocery Store Products Marketed to Children, Clin Pediatr (Phila), 2016 Oct;55(12):1113-9. doi: 10.1177/0009922816651621. Epub 2016 Jun 6.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27270961/#:~:text=Overall%2C (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit)%20350%20products%20(43.2%25),did%20not%20have%20any%20AFCs.

Food colours and hyperactivity, Food Standards Agency, UK
https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/food-additives

Food dyes and health: Literature quantitative research analysis, Measurement: Food
Volume 7, September 2022, 100050
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772275922000272

Artificial colours in local and imported food products, NSW Government Food Authority, May 2014
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/_Documents/scienceandtechnical/artificial_colours.pdf

Perkins Purple, May 10, 2022
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/05/perkins-purple/

WILLIAM HENRY PERKIN AND THE WORLD’S FIRST SYNTHETIC DYE, JAN HICKS, 25 AUGUST 2017, Science and Industry Museum
https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/worlds-first-synthetic-dye/

Peruvian Bark Tree Cinchona officinalis, New York Botanical Garden
https://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany/cinchona/

Mauve: the History of the Colour that Revolutionized the World, 13 July 2018
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/research/mauve-the-history-of-the-colour-that-revolutionized-the-world/

Food additives and hyperactive behaviour in 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children in the community: a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, Lancet 2007; 370: 1560–67, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61306-3

On the changing colour of food & drink, Charles Spence, International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science Volume 17, October 2019, 100161
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878450X19300381

Applications of food color and bio-preservatives in the food and its effect
on the human health, Subhashish Dey, Food Chemistry Advances, Volume 1, October 2022, 100019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772753X2200003X?via%3Dihub

Meta-Analysis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms, Restriction Diet, and Synthetic Food Color Additives, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 86-97.e8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0890856711009531

A Rainbow Palate: How Chemical Dyes Changed the West’s Relationship With Food
By Carolyn Cobbold. Pp. 288, illus., index. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2020.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2022.2066257

Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of Allura Red AC (E 129) as a food additive, European Food Safety Authority, 12 November 2009
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1327

European Food Safety Authority updates safety advice on six food colours, 12 November 2009
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/091112

How Safe are Color Additives? US Food and Drug Administration
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/how-safe-are-color-additives

Color Additives History, Food Safety Magazine October/November 2003
https://www.fda.gov/industry/color-additives/color-additives-history

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4 Comments View Comments

  1. Rating: 3.5

    Can you share the source for the Prussian Blue Peas being used as food coloring? I like to garden with heirloom varieties and do historical reenactment, and it would be fun to experiment! Our company is related for food color manufacturers.

  2. Rating: 5

    I like your videos, could you put them on your website a bit more often, I understand if you can’t. Do you know of anyone else that does fantastic videos like you?

  3. Rating: 0.5

    Hello,
    I LOVE your videos and your my favourite youtuber!
    Please may you do a video a a tooth cake or something to do with dentistry?
    Pls may you reply to this

  4. Rating: 5

    Can you share the source for the Prussian Blue Peas being used as food coloring? I like to garden with heirloom varieties and do historical reenactment, and it would be fun to experiment!

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