Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
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Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
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Please don't post unsubstantive comments.
Please especially don't do that when a thread is new, because threads are sensitive to initial conditions.
Re: Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
#4Good, there is a reason why just about every other country outlaws these.
Re: Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
#5My understanding is that there are somewhat more restrictive regulations on food dyes in the EU compared to the US. But that overall there isn't a big concern about the majority of these dyes.
There also isn't a fundamental difference between a synthetic and a natural dye. Okay, humans are more likely to have encountered a natural dye during their evolution and adapted to ingesting them. But that is unlikely to matter to all kinds of dyes, and also wouldn't filter out any health effects that don't affect reproductive fitness.
Treating a whole category of molecules this way does not make sense. It makes sense to evaluate the health effects of individual dyes. But that is not unique to synthetic dyes.
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#7Synthetic and “natural” is so hazy. What’s the difference between a dye that’s synthetically made and one where we crush up bugs and extract the same exact chemical (real thing.). Why don’t we just eliminate most dyes overall…
Re: Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
#8My understanding is that there are somewhat more restrictive regulations on food dyes in the EU compared to the US. But that overall there isn't a big concern about the majority of these dyes. There also isn't a fundamental difference between a synthetic and a natural dye. Okay, humans are more likely to have encountered a natural dye during their evolution and adapted to ingesting them. But that is unlikely to matte…
> It makes sense to evaluate the health effects of individual dyes
I wonder if changing the color of food is actually that important.
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He's right about dyes. Anything else?
Re: Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
#10My understanding is that there are somewhat more restrictive regulations on food dyes in the EU compared to the US. But that overall there isn't a big concern about the majority of these dyes. There also isn't a fundamental difference between a synthetic and a natural dye. Okay, humans are more likely to have encountered a natural dye during their evolution and adapted to ingesting them. But that is unlikely to matte…
But this is likely also an attempt to market to people who think things like "but I don't want to be exposed to chemicals" while not realizing water is a chemical.