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Fuze Mixed Berry: Go Green!

Fuze Mixed Berry: Go Green!

[ 0 ] September 18, 2011 |

Looks like at least some US manufacturers start to respond to growing consumer’s demand for healthy food and beverages. This may well be the result of increasing awareness of the American public of potentially harmful health effects that artificial coloring (see CSPI document Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks) and other questionable food additives may cause. Recently […]

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Grandpa’s Oven popcorn

Grandpa’s Oven popcorn

[ 8 ] September 15, 2011 |

Here is Grandpa’s Oven All Natural Caramel Corn you can buy at a local Walmart for $2.98 a 9 OZ pack. Luckily this time you pay not for biologically foreign food additives. Quick glance at the green-yellow DyeDiet risk diagram is enough to see that the product is safe to eat… in moderation. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED People […]

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Harvest’s Best Granola

Harvest’s Best Granola

[ 9 ] September 12, 2011 |

If you think that there are low chances to dig out a healthy snack at a local Walmart store, you may be wrong. Here is my recent surprise finding which I am pleased to inform you about: Harvest’s Best All Natural Granola of Harlan Bakeries. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED Harvest’s Best Granola: Risk and Nutrition Look at […]

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Fruit snacks

Fruit snacks

[ 0 ] August 26, 2011 |

Here is Annie’s homegrown organic Bunny Fruit Snacks: Summer Strawberry. Multiply eye-catching claims on the box are designed to assure you that the fruit snack is of highest nutritional quality: All natural strawberry flavors No icky additives or pesky preservatives Made with real fruit juice No artificial colors USDA organic Yes, this all is true. […]

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Starburst: Artificial Fruit Chews

Starburst: Artificial Fruit Chews

[ 6 ] August 11, 2011 |

You can read on the label: cherry, orange, strawberry and lemon; natural and artificial flavors. It sounds fruity, isn’t it? But the question is: if there are natural fruits why to add cheap artificial flavors and questionable (read an article Food Dye Debate Resurfaces) artificial colors? I suspect that actual fruit content in the Starburst Fruit Chews is miserable if […]

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Artificially colored Jordan Almonds

Artificially colored Jordan Almonds

[ 3 ] August 4, 2011 |

You may think that almonds are equal to healthy food. Well, not always so. Here is Sugar Free Jordan Almonds candy from the Sprouts Farmers Market: net weight 0.51 lb, $ 4.58. They look great: round, colorful and bright. But this is EXACTLY what should be a warning sign for everyone, parents in particular. Artificial colors bring […]

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Tic Tac: more artificial colors

Tic Tac: more artificial colors

[ 0 ] July 24, 2011 |

Tic Tac Fruit Adventure is artificially flavored mints; net weight 1 OZ, (29 g) containing 1.9 calories from sugar per mint. Made in Canada for exclusive distribution by Ferrero USA Inc. DyeDiet Diesn’t Buy It! Tic Tac mints: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content  Unlike recently reviewed Tic Tac Orange this time TWO more nutritional ingredients […]

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Jolly Rancher: another fake fruit candy

Jolly Rancher: another fake fruit candy

[ 10 ] July 20, 2011 |

Jolly Rancher hard candy is artificially flavored SUGAR manufactured in Canada for the Hershey Food Corporation. It took the manufacturer even lesser to formulate this candy than what it took Zachary Confection to make their fake “cherry” slices. This time they were able to get away without food starch. One nutrient less! What they have left to Americans were only […]

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Cherry Slices: artificial color content

Cherry Slices: artificial color content

[ 0 ] July 17, 2011 |

Cherry Slices are naturally and artificially flavored candies from Zachary Confections, Inc., “A Family Owned American Company” located in Indiana. This is another illustration of the primitive principle American food manufacturers keep applying to making candies for you and your children: Keep it simple and stupid. Take a look for yourself. DyeDiet Doesn’t Buy It! […]

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Pickles: artificial color content

Pickles: artificial color content

[ 3 ] July 13, 2011 |

Mt. Olive Pickle Company’s Sandwich Stuffers; Kosher Dill. Let’s see what is inside. There is no dill weed added to these yellow pickles. No dill – No deal! See below why. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Based on the ingredients list (see the DyeDiet “Dyegram” above) anti-nutritional risk of DDFI = 20/3 ~ 6.7 (very high!) comes […]

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