Tag: food dyes exposure

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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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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Crackers: Dye Content

Crackers: Dye Content

[ 3 ] July 10, 2011 |

Austin Cheese Crackers with cheddar cheese, since 1932; net weight 1.38 OZ, (39 g), distributed by Kellogg’s. DyeDiet DOESN’T BUY IT! Austin Cheese Crackers: Risk, Nutrition and Dye Content This is another NOT very toxic food example with only 0.6 units of the Foreign Additive Impact (DDFI) and poor nutritional value of DDNF ~ 0.8. […]

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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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Dried Fruits: Food Dyes Added

Dried Fruits: Food Dyes Added

[ 1 ] June 19, 2011 |

According to Livestrong.com finding a healthy snack in your local grocery store can be challenging. There is a good a rule suggested: in general, the less processed the snack, the healthier it is. Yes, I agree but sometimes this is not enough. Dried fruits are the least processed food which retains most of the nutritional value of […]

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