Artificial Colors offer no nutritional benefit for our bodies or our minds. Evidence points to harm, not good. In part 2, I recap the episode from Tuesday in a condensed version and share about artificial colors in our pet's food.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Eco Mama podcast.
I'm your host, Jaime Snell.
I'm here today on focus Fridayto share with you a little bit
more about artificial colors.
Tuesday, we've covered theimportance of knowing how
artificial colors affect us.
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And today I wanted to kind ofwrap that up.
It was a very long episode,originally and my apologies, but
I actually had to cut it inhalf.
And the reason was because I wasin my car, recording the
episode.
My kids were at home.
I needed a quiet space.
(01:20):
And I apparently had lostconnectivity for the wifi.
And it stopped recording.
I went to post it, I realized Ionly had 30 minutes of the hour.
So, yeah, I didn't really finisheverything.
I was going to do today as asummary, from Tuesday, which
I'll still do a little recap,but there was one thing that I
(01:41):
really didn't get a chance totalk about on Tuesday.
And that was how artificialcolors are put into our pets
foods and that's just wrong inmy book.
Cats and dogs don't see in thesame we do.
They don't have the dimensionalsite where we the different
colors of the rainbow.
They have a limited sight forcolors.
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When manufacturers are puttingartificial colors in to our pets
foods, it has nothing to do withwhat the pets want or the pets
like.
It's all about selling to us,the consumer.
If it's a brighter color or itlooks more like the color of the
meat they're describing on thebag, we're more likely to buy it
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because those colors remind usof freshness.
I shared on episode one, I wasin Walmart and out of dog
treats.
I found this small dog bone,like two bucks or whatever it
was like, I just grabbed this ormaybe it was$3 and I'm waiting
in line.
And thankfully there was a linebecause it gave me the
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opportunity to flip over the,dog bone and look at the
ingredients and sure enough, ithad yellow food coloring in it.
And I was like, what?
Why?
My dog doesn't care what colorthis is.
If anything, she wants to knowthat it smells good and that it
tastes good.
She can't see it.
She can't see these differentcolors.
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So, I put it back and that'swhen we started,making our own
dog treats, which I highlyrecommend if you have the time.
The struggle I have with makingmy own dog treats, knowing that
they are safer for her and theydon't have those artificial
ingredients, especially theartificial colors.
Is that I have to make them insmall batches.
Otherwise, they will spoilbecause don't add preservatives
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to it.
However, I don't have the timeto make dog treats twice a week,
which is what it boils down to.
And yeah, I would love to.
I just can't keep up with thatanymore.
Just can't do it.
It's hard enough to keep thehouse clean laundry up to date.
Kids' homework done and run abusiness and keep the podcast
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going and keep my sanity.
So, yeah, looking for some gooddog treats that all the
artificial stuff that isgrain-free.
She's had so many allergies.
She's a golden doodle.
And the previous food we weredoing also had artificial
colors.
I didn't realize it.
Cause I didn't think to look atthe ingredients for my animals
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food.
I thought if I was buying moreof a premium brand, And it costs
a little bit more.
And it was described as.
Either clean ingredients ordescribed as for pure breeds.
I can just kind of assumed andif anyone should know better
than assuming it's me and I, Itotally missed it.
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I totally missed it guys.
So we're doing a little, our ownversion of the elimination diet
for the dog to try and get herallergies under control her ear
infections had just beenchronic, and she chews on her
paws as if she's got peanutbutter between her toes, 24/ 7.
So working on that, if you hearthat in the background, that's
(04:52):
just my daughter making popcornright now for her afterschool
snack.
Yeah.
So that's, that's the big thingwith, with it.
So I would definitely take alook at the ingredients,
illustrator animals too.
Then to give you a quick summaryof Tuesday, if you didn't have
time to listen to the fullepisode, Artificial colors are
hidden and almost everything wehave, they do not change the
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flavor of the food.
It only changes how it appealsto us.
The look of it, like the vanityof it.
We tend to go for brightercolors because we love the
colors of the rainbow.
Kids are more exposed and morevulnerable to the effects of
these artificial food colors.
They have found food color islinked to diseases such as.
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Cancer and leukemia, tons ofallergies, neurodivergent
issues.
Those with ADHD, not everybodywith ADHD, but many of those
with ADHD can be affected moreadversely by food colors by
artificial food colors.
However people without ADHD canbe affected.
So it doesn't seem to have apreference whether you have ADHD
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or not.
It's just that if you do haveADHD, there's a chance that
you're going to have more of astrong, prominent reaction of
hyperactivity orhypersensitivity when you eat
artificial colors.
Also, in Tuesday's podcast,there were some really great
resources that I put at thebottom for references and a Ted
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talk that I highly suggest youwatch if you think that
yourself, your children, or evenyour animals might benefit from
cutting out artificial foodcolorings in your diet.
And the safest way to do that isjust to start making more things
at home.
Stop buying so many pre-packagedLook for fresh as possible.
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When it comes to vegetables andfruits finding organic will
assure that your food has notbeen dyed a different color.
I learned in this process ofdoing my research, that industry
is even dipping oranges into an,a brighter orange dye.
Because we're more likely to buya brighter orange than a more
adult orange.
I don't know about you, but Ijust want it to taste good.
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I want it to taste like a nicesweet, juicy orange.
So moral of the story is to readyour labels.
We say no thank you toartificial colors because we've
seen how it can affect the mindand the body, especially of
younger children.
Be careful out there.
My friends have a safe week, awonderful weekend.
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Be sure to come back on Tuesday,thank you so much for taking the
time to listen.
Happy Friday.
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