Food color is effecting children’s behaviors.
While we were on vacation in Indiana my sister-in-law wanted to make the kids some homemade strawberry pops that were GFCF (we weren’t SCD yet) and she called to ask me if she could add red food coloring to the pops per the recipe directions. I told her we preferred that the boys not get food coloring since we know it effects them. She said fine and made the pops without food coloring. They turned our beautiful and very red on their own. Which makes me wonder, why can’t we just accept food the color it is? Why do we have to make our cheese more orange or our juice redder? Would the strawberry pops have tasted better if they were a brighter red? I don’t think so. And when our parents and grandparents were young didn’t their food taste just as good, if not better, than our foods today? My parents swear they had better tasting food years ago. I think they are correct. I seem to remember better tasting vegetables and fruits. Can we just stop mucking with food and let it be?
Check out the link below for a very interesting story from New Zealand.
60 Minutes – Off Colour
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I think we have made our kids used to obnoxiously bright and over colored food and drinks I mean look at the blue and green craze. I used to work at a baskin Robbins and when the blue food came into fashion we had to put up a warning label for the blue sherbet saying that it would turn stools funny colors. Now why would you eat something your body has a hard time processing!
I couldn't agree more with your post. And if we can't do away with food colorings altogether, why not do what many other countries have done and ban artificial colorants and go back to natural ones such as evaporated beet juice??? Just as the CDC and FDA deny vaccines can even possibly play a role in autism, they continue to deny the ill-effects of artificial food colorants. It angers me so that these people who are so in the dark and ignorant are the same people trying to dictate to everyone how to medically treat their children.