Tag: nutritional value

Tic Tac: food dye content

Tic Tac: food dye content

[ 2 ] July 7, 2011 |

Tic Tac Orange, artificially flavored mints; net weight 1 OZ, (29 g). Less than 2 calories per mint. Made in CANADA. Let us see what is inside. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Tic Tac: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content In fact this product is NOT too bad. You get only 7 mg of FD&C Yellow 6 from the whole container (see […]

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Crush soda: food dyes content

Crush soda: food dyes content

[ 0 ] July 4, 2011 |

Recently DyeDiet reported similarity in the ingredients of Skittles and Blue Bell frozen confections. Blue Bell composition, in turn, was found very similar to Kool-Aid Bursts and various Kool-Aid Bursts were found identical to each other.  Sadly, High Fructose Corn Syrup (watch an educational video on HFCS), citric acid, artificial flavors and dyes is what it takes […]

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Unpatriotic cupcakes of Walmart

Unpatriotic cupcakes of Walmart

[ 2 ] July 1, 2011 |

Do Americans deserve better food? It depends on how YOU respond to this offer from Wal-Mart Stores: Celebrate America 12 “patriotic” chocolate mini cupcakes with buttercream icing. For $2.60 you get low nutritional value and apparent prevalence of artificial food dyes, emulsifiers and other wasteful food additives. DYEDIET DOESN’T BUY IT! Let’s take a look To see what did […]

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Artificial colors of Jell-O

Artificial colors of Jell-O

[ 1 ] June 26, 2011 |

Strawberry, grape, apricot and other fruity desserts of Jell-O (Kraft Foods) are made of the same three ingredients: Sugar, gelatin and adipic acid. No fruits or berries. Insignificant differences come with variations of the artificial colors and flavors. “Strawberry” means Red 40; “grape” means Red 40 plus Blue 1 and “apricot” means Yellow 6. The amounts […]

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Jell-O Berry Blue 1

Jell-O Berry Blue 1

[ 3 ] June 22, 2011 |

A Conflict of Interests: Corporate Profit vs Public Health It seems that many food manufacturers want the consumer to stay confused about the content of their products as much and as long as possible. For decades they have been using same old trick of giving fruity names and depicting fruits on the labels of what […]

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Skittles: Taste the Rainbow of Dyes

Skittles: Taste the Rainbow of Dyes

[ 7 ] June 12, 2011 |

What exactly is in your favorite candy? Yes, Skittles are a rainbow of the food dyes.  And the dyes are a rainbow of health risks (see Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks). Years of watching the US food market has led me to an observation that most of the soft drinks and candies in America […]

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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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Twizzlers: A twisted rainbow of dyes

Twizzlers: A twisted rainbow of dyes

[ 3 ] May 22, 2011 |

I do not believe that artificial food colors, artificial flavors, mineral oil and sulfur dioxide (“to maintain freshness”) were the ingredients of the original Yang & Smylie licorice candy. Perhaps those chemicals were added after acquisition of the business by The Hershey Company in 1977 when production of the candy has become really massive. Monstrous size businesses […]

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