28/01/2024
Fun fact or not so fun fact: For many years we believed that eating candy and sweets causes hyperactivity, especially in children. Remember your parents saying eating candy is making you hyper. While sugar is not good in large amounts and should be minimized, it’s actually the food dyes that are the culprit to hyperactivity in children. Many food dyes used in sweets and junk food are also contaminated with carcinogens. Carcinogens are cancer causing chemicals and toxins. Reducing sugar in our diets is necessary but look out for those food dyes as well. Here is a scholarly article on the topic of food dyes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/ #:~:text=Red%203%20causes%20cancer%20in,Yellow%206)%20cause%20hypersensitivity%20reactions.
This review finds that all of the nine currently US-approved dyes raise health concerns of varying degrees. Red 3 causes cancer in animals, and there is evidence that several other dyes also are carcinogenic. Three dyes (Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6) have been found to be contaminated with benzidi...
