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FDA Approved Food Coloring Dyes: What You Are Really Eating90

FDA Approved Food Coloring Dyes: What You Are Really Eating

Consumers beware of what artificial food coloring is, where it comes from and why we shouldn't eat it. There are easy ways to avoid poisoning our bodies, especially our children. We shouldn't wait for the government to ban these substances, we have to make the change ourselves.

16 comments    food additives natural food dyes
Homemade Food Coloring - Healthy and Toxin Free85

Homemade Food Coloring - Healthy and Toxin Free

Learn how to make homemade food coloring and use basic natural ingredients in the kitchen to bring appetizing color to your foods.

91 comments    food safety healthy cooking
Health: Synthetic Food Dyes: The Seven Deadly Dyes86

Health: Synthetic Food Dyes: The Seven Deadly Dyes

Synthetic dyes are added to most foods in the USA and Canada, but these dyes may not be safe for consumption and are banned in Europe. This hub is a list of the 7 dyes, what health problems they are linked to, and what you can do about them.

9 comments    allergies food allergies red 40
Painting, decorating, waxing and colouring Easter Eggs87

Painting, decorating, waxing and colouring Easter Eggs

Decorating eggs for Easter is a wonderful tradition. Here's a guide to the origin of the craft, and a how-to guide for painting and colouring your own eggs this Easter.

55 comments    children kids cooking
How To Make Homemade Natural Food Coloring ~ Recipes to Dye Buttercream Frosting, Cake, and Easter Eggs82

How To Make Homemade Natural Food Coloring ~ Recipes to Dye Buttercream Frosting, Cake, and Easter Eggs

A comprehensive resource for making homemade food dye from natural sources ~ food! Use natural dyes to add color to cakes, frosting or Easter eggs. Great recipes for birthdays, Mother's Day and other holidays.

8 comments    food coloring homemade food dye
Red 40: Kat's newly discovered sensitivity79

Red 40: Kat's newly discovered sensitivity

If you haven't read my hub about Kat's other food sensitivity (barley, malt, and corn, so far; a grain allergy, but not to ALL grains) this hub is really more of an update. Once we removed all food products...

7 comments    health children doctors
Most Toxic Vitamins and Medicine: Essential Vitamins and Minerals and Artificial Food Dye Dangers78

Most Toxic Vitamins and Medicine: Essential Vitamins and Minerals and Artificial Food Dye Dangers

Much like our food system, vitamins and medicine in the United States are laced with poisonous substances known as artificial dyes. Here's a practical plan for identifying which products to avoid and stop allowing these toxins into our bodies!

12 comments    whole food nutrients
Benefits And Side Effects of Commonly Used Natural Food Color Additives78

Benefits And Side Effects of Commonly Used Natural Food Color Additives

We have a long history of putting color aditives in our food to make it look and taste delicious. In fact, Ancient Egyptians and Romans believed that brightly colored food provided physical and spiritual healing. Today, we use it mainly for visual aesthetics. Synthetic food colors replaced the natural food in the 19th century, but conscientious manufacturers returned to them when health concerns arose. Natural food color additives offer a myriad of health benefits, but side effects as well.

0 comments    cancer diabetes allergies
Artificial Food Dyes, ADHD, Allergies and Cancer Connection75

Artificial Food Dyes, ADHD, Allergies and Cancer Connection

I've long wondered if food dyes have an impact on our health. It is a fact, approximately 15 million pounds of synthetic chemical color dyes have been added to our foods every year. And since 1955 this number has increased 5-fold. The dye additives have increased because the production and selections of processed food choices has increased to meet the fast food consumer demand. Now science reveals there are 8 dyes that are known to cause ADHD, allergies and cancer. Learn which ones they are.

0 comments    cancer obesity adhd
Avoiding Artificial Food Coloring and Dye73

Avoiding Artificial Food Coloring and Dye

Artificial food colorings seem to color our lives, or at least the cupboards. Find out where they are most likely to lurk, and get a few recommendations on how to avoid them.

0 comments    food dye red food coloring
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