The Food and Drug Administration has said it is banning the use of Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that has long been used in the U.S. to color certain foods, such as candies and colored beverages, as well ...

Major American brands have vowed to remove synthetic food dyes from their products, but M&M’s and Skittles, made by Mars, remain colorful holdouts. Mars has continued to use synthetic dyes in its ...

There’s a good possibility tomatoes are about to get more expensive. Bloomberg reports a decades-long deal with Mexico expires in less than a week, and this affects U.s. tomato importer Nature Sweet, ...

In January 1976, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned a popular and well-studied chemical used in food: Red 2. Food colorants have long been contentious, misunderstood and a target for ...

A recent analysis found that 19% of items from major manufacturers use them. And those products weren’t just colorful — they often contained more added sugar, too. A new analysis of nearly 40,000 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate synthetic food dyes from the American food supply is facing stiff resistance from one of the country’s most iconic candy makers — Mars, ...

Odds are, something in your pantry is colored with petroleum. Synthetic dyes — which give fruit snacks their bright colors and cereals their rainbow crunch — are embedded into the everyday foods that ...

In one of the anonymous industrial parks that dot New Jersey between Newark and Trenton, as many as 10 billion pouches of Welch’s Fruit Snacks fly off the conveyor belts every year. For almost a ...

Since becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken aim at coloring compounds in foods, drinks, and medical products, claiming that they can compromise ...

Products containing synthetic dyes had 141% higher mean total sugar compared with products without synthetic dyes. HealthDay News — Synthetic dyes are present in 19% of US food products and are more ...