The FDA banned Red No.3, also known as erythrosine, after reviewing studies that linked high doses of the dye to cancer in ...

Color signaling has long provided us with visual clues about what to eat and what not to eat. Food dressed in fuzzy black and blue mold? No, thank you. Red meat fading to dull brown? Merely a case of ...

Anthocyanins are frequently produced when photo-synthetic activity at the site of eventual pigmentation is diminished through seasonal changes or various kinds of injuries to the plant (mechanical ...

But some companies have completely shifted away from synthetic dyes and instead focused on natural food coloring, like curcumin, carotenes, paprika and anthocyanins, Johnson-Arbor says.

The FDA’s move comes more than a year after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act, which bans red dye No. 3 and other substances from being sold in the state.

Real fruit juices often change color if mixed with household acids and bases. Artificial food dyes usually do not change color when mixed with these same household solutions. The colored chemicals in ...