Tag: food colors

Blue Bell Frozen Colors

Blue Bell Frozen Colors

[ 1 ] June 9, 2011 |

24 Bullets frozen confections Summer is about to start heating 24/7 so we begin to think of getting something cool for us and our kids. Could it be 24 frozen colored bars (59 g each) of the Blue Bell for $3.47? Hope not and here is why. One of the Dye Diet’s goals is to help the […]

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Mountain Dew: the colored twins

Mountain Dew: the colored twins

[ 0 ] June 5, 2011 |

As I wrote before, the soft drinks and candy manufacturers do not bother to use their intellectual potential, even if they have it, to design really new products. They simply breed new brands and give different names to the same old set of the ingredients: HFCS, a bunch of preservatives, artificial flavors and the food dyes. This […]

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Kool-Aid Outrage

Kool-Aid Outrage

[ 15 ] June 2, 2011 |

The Kraft Foods contribution into the future of the USA Children are our future. Their health, education and wellbeing should be the nation’s number-one priority. Do you agree? Now see what Kraft Foods has to contribute with. What exactly does Kool-Aid Man “bursting through the walls” bring to our children’s homes? “Oh, yeah!”  Today it is Cherry and […]

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Blue Raspberry of Tum-E Yummies

Blue Raspberry of Tum-E Yummies

[ 5 ] May 28, 2011 |

Have you ever seen a blue raspberry? Here it is, the “sour-sational raspberry,” a soft drink with no raspberries but FD&C Blue #1 aniline food dye in it instead. Look for yourself: This is another example of the freakish marketing ideas used by the food manufacturers to trick you and your children into buying their wasteful […]

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Food Dyes in Twizzlers

Food Dyes in Twizzlers

[ 4 ] May 19, 2011 |

I cannot remember that any other food manufacturer would suggest the customers to tell something like what The Hershey Company asked them for: What Do You Do With Twizzlers Candy? Well, if you think that Twizzlers were designed only to be eaten, think again. In fact some people eat them. Others do handcraft: “With the pull and […]

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How Much Food Dyes Are in the sodas?

How Much Food Dyes Are in the sodas?

[ 3 ] May 16, 2011 |

Fanta, Mello Yello and Big Blue Perhaps they expect you to pick up Fanta or Mello Yello of the Coca-Cola Company or Big Blue of the Big Red, Inc., from a beverage cooler when you are checking out at a local Walmart store. Your attention may be attracted by the eye-catching ”100% natural flavors” and […]

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How Much Food Dyes are in Powerade?

How Much Food Dyes are in Powerade?

[ 12 ] May 13, 2011 |

Honestly, I do not understand why so many Americans keep buying soft drinks like Gatorade and Powerade which look so obviously unhealthy liquids to me. One explanation is that they do not read the ingredient lists or perhaps do not understand what some ingredients can do to their bodies. On the other hand, this is […]

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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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Natural vs Artificial

Natural vs Artificial

[ 2 ] May 5, 2011 |

We often see the words like  “all natural”, “100% natural”, natural color”, “natural flavor”, “natural ingredients” and “natural anti-oxidants” as the indications of healthy foods. The opposite is true when we read something like “artificial flavor”, “artificial food coloring”, “synthetic chemical” which we always see in a negative sense as the signs of an unhealthy […]

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How Much Food Dyes Are in Gatorade?

How Much Food Dyes Are in Gatorade?

[ 10 ] May 1, 2011 |

Gatorade, distributed by The Gatorade Co., is a popular sport beverage which comes in a variety of flavors like Glacier Freeze, Blueberry Pomegranate, Lemon-Lime, Tropical Blend, Orange and Tropical Mango considered below. However, their composition is almost all the same (G2 series reviewed): Water Sucrose Citric acid Flavor Salt Sodium citrate Mono-potassium phosphate Sucralose (The […]

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