November 8, 2022 • 33 mins
Artificial Colors and Your Health
There are currently 9 approved artificial colors permitted by the FDA.
Blue 1 - animal studies to be linked to cancer, as well as to affect neurons and cause allergic reactions,
Blue 2
Citrus Red 2
Green 3
Red 3 - evidence that it caused thyroid tumors
Red 40
Yellow 5 - allergy-like hypersensitivity, as well as hyperactivity in children
Yellow 6 - linked with the adrenal gland and kidney tumors
What are the side effects of food colorings?
Cancerous tumors of the bladder, thyroid, and other organs
Genotoxicity (ability to mutate DNA)
Exacerbated hives and asthma
Neurotoxicity
Irritability and trouble sleeping
Aluminum contamination (this applies to both natural and artificial colors)
Negative impact on male fertility
Contaminated with carcinogens like benzidine
Hypersensitivity reactions
Irritable bowel syndrome
Hyperactivity
What FOODS contain AFCs?
High-sugar breakfast cereals
Gelatin desserts
Ice pops
Hot dogs
Ketchup
Mustard
Waffles
Yogurt
Pasta
Hot chocolate mix
Chocolate milkshakes
Cracker and cheese snacks
Chicken coating mixes
BBQ sauce
Peanut butter
Microwave popcorn
Most processed foods, canned foods, candy, and processed beverages.
Farmed fish
Jello
Hard candy like lollipops
Syrups
Gummy bears and worms
Candy like skittles, M&Ms, sour patch kids, Jolly ranchers, starburst, etc.
Frosting
Soda
Sports drinks like Gatorade and Pedialyte
Boxed macaroni
Gum
Health/Energy/Meal Replacement/Granola bars
Alcohol: Campari, and chartreuse, have food coloring added.
Oranges
Cheese
Butter
Ice Cream
Microwave popcorn
Sandwich bread
Pickles
Yogurt
Bottled Salad Dressing
Farmed Salmon (colored by astaxanthin in its feed)
What PRODUCTS contain AFCs?
Vitamins
Cough Syrup
Toothpaste
Mouthwash
Shampoo
Conditioners
Lotions
Skin Care Products
Astringents (toners)
Facial Skin Treatments
Deodorants
Liquid Cleansers
Laundry Detergent
Lip Moisturizer
Soaps
Here are some suggestions for making your natural food colorings:
Red: Beet powder, dehydrated beets, strawberry/raspberry/pomegranate juice,* grape skin extract
Blue: Butterfly pea flower powder
Purple: Butterfly pea flower powder plus a dash of lemon juice
Green: Moringa or matcha, grape skin extract
Yellow: Turmeric, beta-c
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(00:37):
Welcome back to the eco mamapodcast.
Today, I'm really excited totalk to you about artificial
food colorings.
I felt it needed its ownepisode.
What I'm going to share with youtoday are the things that I've
learned about artificial foodcolorings.
Where you normally would findthem.
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And why other countries nolonger allow them?
And why we should be avoidingthem ourselves.
In particularly, I'm gonna talkabout how they affect adults and
how they affect children.
How do they affect our health?
Well, let me give you a littlebit of history of how artificial
food colors first came about.
It all began with the massproduction of foods during the
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industrial revolution.
The powers that be created aneed for these colors.
Because mass production of foodextended the storage of food.
Meaning that it kind of dulledthe color.
Or altered the natural colorsthat were in it.
People didn't want to eat brownfoods.
So they started making someartificial colors that would
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liven it back up.
And make it look fresher than itreally was, and more palatable
to those that they were tryingto sell to.
Initially, those food colors asartificial food colors were
created from coal-basedpigments.
Now.
They found out over time.
After people started gettingsick, that those coal-based
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pigments had heavy metals inthem, such as mercury, copper,
arsenic, and lead.
Jaime (02:13):
So they learned to make the petroleum based pigments,
prompting the first officiallist of approved colors in 1906.
Now they'd already been used fora while, so it's not like they
said, okay, what's safe?
Let's make a list.
And then we'll let people eatthem, to the general public.
No.
They started feeding them to thegeneral public and then they
decided what, based on whosurvived and who didn't get
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sick.
Companies continue to massproduce food.
And I mean, you've seen how it'sevolved in the past hundred
years.
So most everything comes in apackage now, unless it's
straight from the farm.
Even things from the farm getwrapped in plastic.
So sad.
Well, changes occurred on thatlist again and the 1960's.
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It took a while, but when theydid the USA updated it with some
additional restrictions.
Against colors that they learnedwere causing cancers.
Today, many artificial colorsare made with 20 or more
chemicals to achieve the colorthat they desire.
The brighter, the color.
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You guessed it, the more likelyit is to be concentrated and
therefore more hazardous.
There's currently Approvedartificial colors that are
permitted by the FDA.
While they do require some formsof regulation.
These, this regulation is morelike they batch test random
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colors periodically.
And not all ingredients arelisted on labels.
You're probably wondering, well,how do I know what color is your
safe?
If it's not from nature, goodchance, it's not good for you
and I will share with you soonon why.
But these artificial colors thatare being put into foods,
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they're done, mainly just todupe us.
Its own form of greenwashing,but it's a visual greenwashing
as opposed to the verbalmarketing of greenwashing.
They're making the foods lookmore appealing to us.
In particularly children.
I mean, what adult goes down thecereal aisle and says, oh, this
has the brightest colors ever.
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I want it, I want it, I want it.
I don't know many that do.
When we become adults, we'remore looking for a bran and
looking for the fiber contentand lower sugar, but with
children, it's all about thevisuals.
So a lot of the marketing, thatis done on the visual side for
how the colors that are producedare done for children.
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And mind you, artificial foodcolors do not change the food at
all.
They do not change the flavorone bit.
It's just the color of it.
They're nine approved artificialcolors that are permitted.
And those nine are (04:52):
blue one.
Blue to citrus red two.
Green three.
Red three.
Yellow five and yellow six.
So think of these as our primarycolors, and then they blend
these different colors toachieve the color they want
maybe a little bit more blue.
Or a little bit more greendepending on the hue they're
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looking for.
Blue one (05:14):
there's been animal studies done that are linked to
cancer.
Red three (05:19):
which is very, very common.
Now this has got strong evidencethat is linked to thyroid
tumors.
Yellow five (05:27):
creates an allergy like hypersensitivity in both
children and adults.
But it is more prominently seenin children.
And yellow number six is linkedto adrenal gland and kidney
tumors.
So we're looking Cancer.
Neurological disorders.
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Allergies hyperactivity,hypersensitivity.
Adrenal gland tumors and kidneytumors.
I'm just getting started.
Y'all.
Other side effects from foodcolorings, and this is more of a
general, they pulled thesealtogether and it's kind of an
exhausted list.
So fast forward, if you don'twant to be weighed down right
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now, because it's heavy, it isheavy stuff, guys.
But I just feel I feel called toshare this information with you.
So if you stick with me, Youknow, I promise to be real.
With you and natural and.
And then make it as fun aspossible and just be myself, but
some of the material is heavy.
I can't lie.
All right.
Side effects of food, colorings,cancerous tumors of the bladder,
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thyroid and other organs.
Geno toxicity.
It is a mutation of our DNA.
Exacerbated hives and asthma.
I'd probably put that underallergies.
Neuro toxicity.
Irritability and troublesleeping.
This happens a lot with thechildren too.
They're very prone to that.
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Aluminum contamination.
So we know we're taking aluminumout of a lot of our deodorants
now.
But aluminum contamination canstill happen With artificial
food colors, just because of thechemicals that are used to
create those colors.
A negative impact on malefertility.
And irritable bowel syndrome.
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This was new to me.
I've heard of IBS before, and itis caused by excess stress and
most people No that have had it.
But I never really thought abouthow our food was contributing to
irritable bowel syndrome.
I think if a syndrome issomething that's more genetic.
But no, it is contributing toirritable bowel syndrome.
It's creating it.
And some.
It's test subjects.
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The most concerning across theboard of all the things that
have been side effects for the.
Artificial food colors, just thehyperactivity.
Add and ADHD that they see now,this isn't children and adults.
I am not saying by any meansthat artificial food colors.
Cause ADHD.
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Nor am I saying that?
Only those with ADHD areaffected by artificials with
They have found in studies thatwere done.
And I do have a list ofresources in the show notes.
They have found that.
It's kind of random who wouldhit some people have more
sensitivities to theseartificial food colors than
others.
Some it doesn't affect at all.
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You could have.
10 people.
Okay.
Standing next to each other.
Size have ADHD and five do not.
All right.
And various ages, various races,various backgrounds.
And it might hit three of thenon ADHD people and two of the
ADHD subjects.
It's not really particular.
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Those that do get hit with ADHDthat are sensitive are super
sensitive, more, so.
More often there.
Reactions are more intense thanthose without ADHD.
If that makes sense.
Now, when it comes to thetesting, even though.
It's been going on for obviouslysince 1906, they've been
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monitoring it.
Now not a lot of changes havebeen made or laws have been
written around it, but someoneout there is paying attention
because where else would thisinformation come from with these
tests and studies?
A lot of the tests that are doneand published in the medical
industry give us limited resultsand the reasons for As, because
most of these cases only testone color at a time with one
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food at a time.
So when we talk about ourproducts that we use every day,
And if we Isolating thoseproducts and maybe one
ingredient in that product.
We only know what that oneingredient does.
We don't know what it does wheninteracted with the other
ingredients of that product.
Okay, so yellow number five,mixed with something else.
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Could have a different responseto the body.
They're not testing that.
They're just extracting theyellow number five and testing
it on the subject.
In addition to that.
It doesn't share what it lookslike when these are all
compounded.
So if you're using 10 productswith yellow, number five, two
with red 40, and then three withblue one, it doesn't show the
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reactions of your body withthese different artificial food
colorings commingling in oursystem each and every single
day.
So the results of how theseaffects us are still very, very
limited, even though it's been,you know what, 120 years, 115
years they've been doing thesetests.
It's not, they just haven'texpanded it.
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They haven't, I don't thinkthey've really put a lot of
energy into it.
And a lot of these tests, itneeds to be said.
I said they were in the medicalindustry.
They are not done by thirdparties.
The majority of them.
There's very few that have beendone by third parties that are
impartial to the results.
These tests are usuallyperformed and Reported by the
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chemical industry itself.
I also need to note that,remember I mentioned that
artificial food colors.
Did not change the food in anyway.
It didn't change the flavor.
It also doesn't change thenutritional value they have had
zero evidence that it increasedthe health of the food that
you're eating.
So there are zero healthbenefits to adding it.
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Again, they are only addingthese colors to make it look
prettier and more enticing forus to spend our money on.
It is surely less expensive forthese companies that are mass
producing foods to use theartificial colors than it is to
use real food and invest theirmoney into real food that would
create these different colors,such as real fruit or other
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healthy ingredients that couldlend to the natural food
colorings.
Another reason our results arelimited in testing is that most
early studies on humans are onlymonitored for up to two years.
In contrast, testing that hasbeen done on lab rats.
They need up to three years tosee the prominent signs of
cancers.
Only some studies are managed bythird rather than the chemical
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industry who does the majorityof them.
Alright, what foods containartificial food coloring.
That's that's a really goodquestion.
I think it would be easier tosay what doesn't have it.
So, let me start there becausethat's a shorter list.
Things that do not haveartificial food coloring.
Fresh food.
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Real fresh food where you know,where it comes from the source.
Fresh food that you picked offthe vine.
That you got from the field.
Or that you got from the farmer,Joe, that you know, down at the
farmer's market.
That you can pretty muchguarantee those vegetables and
fruits are safe.
When it comes to meats, it needsto not be processed.
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So your sausages that areprocessed, even the casings on
those sausages.
They get artificial foodcoloring quite often.
So, if you don't know, who'sprocessing your meat for you,
chances are it might still haveit in there.
Artificial food coloring is notgoing to kill you in one day.
As with other chemicals andharmful ingredients, it takes a
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compound of them into your body,into your system.
But years and years and years ofusing products and eating foods
with artificial food colorings.
Can have.
Negative effects on your body,especially, if you are prone to
be sensitive to them.
And that would be about 8% ofthe population in our children.
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I was not able to find thestatistics on what population of
the adults have thehypersensitivity or
hyper-reactivity to artificialfood colorings, but it is 8% in
children right now that theyhave found.
And the reason that it's moreconcentrated with children and
it's easier to track is becausechildren are the ones that are
getting all of these artificialsof color and we are letting our
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children eat these ingredientsand use these products with
these artificial food colorsthat are having this negative
adverse effects on them.
Now it says that for children,about 90% of the food industry
and the personal care productindustry.
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That is geared towards children.
90% of that has artificial foodcolorings in and the only way to
really know that it's gotartificial food coloring is to
turn over and look at the labelsfriends.
That is the only way to know.
And I say that because we wereliterally just at target this
past week, it was my daughter's10th birthday.
And she got, I bless all ourfriends and family.
She got so many gift cards, mygoodness.
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And I've never take themshopping because I'm just, I,
besides being frugal, I also tryto minimize big box shopping and
a target can be that.
Not that you can't find goodvalue there.
It's just not where I tend tospend a lot of time.
She also got a Starbucks card,so we spent the day in target
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and with Starbucks walkingaround and granted it could have
been the mall.
So it's not like it was the endof the world.
I, I survived.
It was fine.
But she get these targets giftcards and we go and we're
walking and they, her and hersister, they tried on some
clothes and they found a coupleof things they wanted.
My son found a little toy Nerfgun he wanted.
So they were using their money.
They got to buy these things.
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No problem.
I however decided to walk downnear the food.
Cause I wanted to see if theyhad any good sales and that was
a mistake because, you know, Iwasn't thinking having the kids
with me that they're going tojust start grabbing things and
mom, can I have this mom?
Can I have that?
My rule with shopping is, youmust read the labels and if it
has artificial food coloring orartificial guys or artificial
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flavors, which will be a whole,another episode on its own.
Then I say, no, I won't buy itfor Now they did get candy from
trick or treating.
They do go to friends houses.
They get artificial foodcoloring in their diet.
But it's not worth tempting fateto see what might happen to
them.
We just try to minimize it inour food.
So anything that's pre-packaged,which is like 98% of what
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children want most of the time.
I have them checked.
Now, my daughter brings me thisbox of cereal and on the very
front of it, it says made withnatural flavors and colors.
She's like, look, mom, Naturalflavors and This is good.
This is safe.
She drops it in the car and I'mlike, whoa, not Honey.
It didn't say it.
Wasn't made.
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With artificial colors.
Is that it's made with natural.
So let's flip it over and lookat the full ingredients list.
We'll share enough.
It had artificial flavors andartificial colors, narrative
backed It three differentartificial colors in there.
So we put So just because it maylook.
Like it's safe on the front.
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We'll need to turn over that Andread for yourself.
What is actually in it?
These food dyes.
These artificial food colors,they will tell you to my
knowledge, it is just.
Just the straight color Andthere's only nine to look for.
So just try to avoid foods thatare in those nine.
So a full roundabout way to getback to what it is actually in.
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So foods that contain Fishelfood coloring.
Anything packaged.
That's the easy way to say.
If you want to avoid it, justavoid anything that is
pre-packaged.
And by that, I mean the processfood, you think of anything
that's The mass produced.
But as you have quite anexhausted list, so I will rattle
it off.
But again, this will be includedin the show notes or in the
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transcripts transcription.
Hi, sugar breakfast.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
That's going to have it,especially the brighter, the
brighter, the deeper, I thinkit's probably going to be in
there.
Gelatin desserts, ice pops.
Really.
Ketchup.
Mustard.
You think we'll catch up is fromtomatoes that's already read.
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Yes, it is.
However, once you put thosepreservatives in and you leave
it tomato sitting long enoughthe preservatives will keep the
flavor.
Over there, but that color.
This is going to change becausenature's going to kind of
deteriorated, right?
So they add red back to thecatch-up.
To make it read again.
Now you can get organicingredients.
And organic products should nothave any artificial for coloring
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in there.
That being said, there areoptions on all of these things
I'm mentioning that can comewithout artificial food
colorings.
But you have to pay attention toit.
More often than not the genericversion, unless it's like a
trader Joe's possibly a wholefoods, but still no guarantee.
You're going to get artificialcolors in there.
So it's learning a brand,knowing a brand or learning how
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to make these things yourself.
People may catch up at home ontheir own.
People make their own ice pops.
They make their own gelatindesserts.
We make our own granola.
So the cereals for Hot chocolatemix.
Pasta.
Yogurt waffles.
Chocolate milkshakes.
Cracker and she stacks.
Chicken coding mixes.
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Barbecue sauce.
Butter really.
It is already brown.
I don't see why you would needto preserve.
Color to make important.
Microwave popcorn.
Huh?
I wonder if that's the buttercolor they put on And those
process foods.
Yeah, bam.
They're just, you know, rightthere in one word, processed
foods, two words actually.
Canned foods, candy processedbeverages.
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Here's one for you.
And I avoid this just becauseI've learned what they're being
fed.
Farmed fish actually.
Color the fish, my friends.
So when I said, if you don'tknow, who's processing your meat
for you or cutting up theanimal, if you're not a
vegetarian.
Or filling Fish yeah, you needto pay a little closer attention
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to that.
So, I've learned that most farmfish corn diet and most of that
corn is from GMO fields.
So I stopped eating farm.
Farmed fish.
I stopped eating farm fish.
More than 10 years ago.
And I believe.
That's a shame because I reallydidn't enjoy.
I always thought I was doinggood, but I there's no such
thing as fresh to laugh atanymore.
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It's all farms.
Anyway, so that, that beautifulfarm salmon that you've been
buying that bright pink.
There's a good chance if it'sfarms that it's not a natural,
right.
I do that so that it looksfresher so that you'll buy
Jello.
Candy like lollipops, Cirrus.
Okay.
Syrups are huge.
Syrup's I don't like anythingbut pure maple syrup.
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And I've met some people whohave family and friends that
actually have.
Farms, they have maple syrupfarms up in the Northeast and
that's we order our syrup everyyear from there and I love it.
And if I run out, then Idefinitely go the extra mile and
spend the extra money on puremaple syrup because all the
other syrups really are just Ifyou ask me.
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Here maple syrup is the way togo.
Gummy bears and gummy worms.
Should have written that out,right.
Like Skittles.
Sour patch kids jolly.
Starburst.
Okay.
Here's an interesting fact foryou.
Starburst.
They have these fruit shoes,right.
And they make, they make themfor internationally to other
countries.
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European union has so many bandson their personal care products.
They also have a ton of bands onwhat can be used in the food
products.
And one of those is the foodcolorings that America does not
ban.
So Starburst makes all naturalcolor colored fruit chew that
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they sell in Europe.
Do they sell that here?
No.
Why would they spend more moneyon their products when they can
get away with salmon it downwith artificial food colors,
they still use artificial colorshere.
But the Starburst in Europe.
It's much safer for ourchildren, even though it's still
a high sugar content.
But the Starburst in Europe.
Much safer because it doesn'thave the artificial food colors.
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That just goes to show you thatregulations really do matter.
And when you vote and actuallytoday, is voting day.
So if you haven't already goneout there, hit pause or get in
your car and take this with Gunsthough guys.
I'm not telling you who to votefor how to vote.
But if you don't like the waythings are, and you're not
someone to get up and make thechange yourself for this
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country, then find someone whobelieves in what you believe in
support them so that thosechanges can be made.
I know a lot of people are veryunhappy with the way politics
have.
Become, and I don't even like todiscuss politics, but I do think
it is important to vote.
I'm not going to run forgovernor.
I'm not going to run for office.
I'm not going to do any Stuff.
It's just not my thing.
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But I would like to see thingsimprove.
So I try to do my research andfind people who going for things
that I think are important and Isupport them and I vote for
them.
Frostings.
We make our own frosting at homeand they do have a all natural
food coloring that you can buy alittle bit more expensive.
I did find it on Amazon.
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If I remember I'll put a link inthe show notes, but it's
possible to make.
Fun stuff.
You just got to do it at homeinstead of buying it, all the
process stuff at the stores.
Sports drinks like Gatorade andPDL lights.
Boxed macaroni.
Gum.
Gummy.
It has plastic in it.
If you didn't know that, sorry,sorry to spoil you there.
Health energy and mealreplacement bars.
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Granola bars.
Shoot me a message because Ihave a great granola recipe.
From a hundred days of real foodand I've been making it for 15
years now and we can makegranola bars out of it too.
It's actually Alcohol.
There's some alcohol that hasartificial food colors in it.
He imagined.
You've seen the fire.
Red and the Let's see compariand chartreuse, like the bright
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purple drinks.
Old fashioned, bitters andliquors like Aperol.
They all have food coloringadded to them.
This one really shocked me.
But it absolutely makes sense.
Apples.
Oranges.
Oranges.
Some oranges have actually beendipped in artificial food
coloring.
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To make them more uniform.
It is ever heard of misfitsproduce.
It's an online place where youcan order food.
And it's misfits of produce thatthey didn't meet the industry
standard of beautiful.
So maybe a pepper grew sidewaysor Strawberry had three butts on
it or yeah, the plumb came outkind of greenish, but it still
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tasted delicious.
And they didn't want to treat itwith anything or they couldn't
treat it with anything to makeit more uniform.
So then they sold it at adiscount to the people who put
together misfits it's ingeniousoutfit, for sure.
So the food is still natural.
It just looks more like natureintended it to not the picture
of things that.
Society has told us to, and.
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Think about teeth.
I'm cheap.
Not everyone is born with whiteteeth, friends.
Okay.
So Archie had a national yellowtent.
To them.
It's just a matter of How muchof a tense.
But society has white So nowwhen we see someone with yellow
teeth, we think, Ooh, gross,dirty.
Or yeah.
Can I tell you how much I loveseeing an actor in a movie with
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just real color teeth, not allglammed out glow in the dark
white teeth.
How cool is that like that'sokay.
Just be you just So orange issometimes are not allowed to be
themselves.
They have to be dipped in theseartificial food colorings.
So they look like what we expectthem to look like bright orange.
Matters to me.
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What it tastes like on theinside.
And if I do have an orange and Ido care about I want it to smell
like a real orange and to be areal orange.
If you need fresh fruit for anyzesting.
And it doesn't, it nevermentioned limes or lemons, but
I'm going to go the extra mileand say, get organic.
If you're going to be zestingfruit for a recipe or a dressing
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or garnish.
Go organic.
Okay?
That's the only way to reallyreally know.
You're getting safe staff.
All right.
A few more products here listed.
List is cheese, butter, icecream.
Sandwich bread.
There is this it's, it's in theresources as well.
It is a TedTalk that this doctordid.
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And she talked about how her sonhad been affected.
But it's such a great episode towatch just to understand it
more.
It's only like 10 or 12 minutes,they thought they had cleared
their son's diet of all food andlike nine months into a
artificial food coloring, freediet.
His behavior started to like getwonky again and What it was.
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She noticed that he'd beeneating a lot of bagels lately
and she buys all the food.
He doesn't sneak food.
He knows how important it is forhim because of all the struggles
that he had with his reactionsto artificial food colorings.
She checked the bagels and itdidn't say anything on it, but
it was an egg bagel.
And she's like, what?
Why is this egg bagel kind ofyellow?
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The bakery where they make itand sure enough, they added one
of the yellow food dyes and tothose.
And that's where the culpritwas.
So it's not always listed Guys.
It's so sad.
It's not always.
He's listed.
But we do our due diligence andtry to eliminate what we can.
Alright pickles, your picklesare not always bright green
friends.
Hey, has Coloring to those jars,you can make your own pickles at
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home.
You can either buy a freshcucumber that you know, was
organic and then make yourpickles, or you can grow them in
your own garden.
And Jerry are pickles andthey'll be good for years Well,
I don't salad dressing.
Again, I like to make my ownanyway, I really don't find a
bottle.
I feel like money, just a littleoil.
Oil and vinegar, salt andpepper.
Fresh garlic.
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You get to go.
Farmed salmon.
I already talked about the farmfish.
All right.
Products with artificial Thismight blow your mind.
When I first learned this, whenmy children were a little.
It truly blew my mind and Istarted paying.
Extra for the stuff without theartificial food colorings.
And it sucks that I had to dothat, but then you got to think.
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Am I really paying extra for thesafer ingredients.
Or am I.
Am.
I like.
Cheap chinsing out on myself,buying the cheap stuff, knowing
that they're not spending themoney for.
The quality of the ingredients.
That I deserve.
To make it so obviously they cansell it for less.
I believe that it's okay tospend a little bit more money On
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products that have ingredientsYou know, are safe.
Because you're being proactiveabout your health, and there's a
good chance that we're going tosave money in the long run on
our health expenses.
That's my 2 cents.
There.
Okay.
Vitamins.
Yes vitamins Have artificialfood colorings.
Why would I add that?
Make it more enticing Children'sto take them.
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Cough syrups.
Eva reducers Tylenol.
Do you think Tylenol isnaturally bright pink?
We're not even talking aboutflavors I'm just talking about
the colors Toothpaste.
Now one shampoo conditioners.
Lotions Care products.
Stringent such as toners.
Facial skin treatments,deodorants.
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Liquid cleansers.
Laundry detergent.
Lip moisturizer.
Soaps.
And guess what.
Well, bass.
We'd like spell bats.
Well, I'm raising my hand herecause I do however it's children
who like level bass guys.
We're putting them in these hotpink and bright purple bubble
bass.
Just for fun to have.
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I have such a cute.
That time.
We're soaking them andartificial food colors, guys.
Remember what I said about, orif you haven't heard this
before, it's in several.
All of my previous episodes, ourskin is our largest Whatever you
put on your body is going to getin your Just remember that.
Okay.
So your laundry detergent isthere's artificial food coloring
in your laundry detergent, andyou think, well, I don't eat
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that.
It doesn't matter.
It does matter because it'sgetting on your clothes and it's
soaking into those fibers.
And then those fibers are on.
On your body and whatever's onthose.
And then soaking into your skincells.
And into your.
Okay.
So it does matter.
All right.
So I mentioned a little bitabout the European union
standards.
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So isn't just America strugglingwith.
With these artificial foodcolorings.
It's not an absolute yes, but.
But I would say Yeah, we're kindof causing our own problems here
by letting so many companiesstill feed it to us.
So the European union hasrequired many companies to omit
them from their ingredients.
For the few that are notrequired.
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Because many, many of themreally just volunteered once
they saw.
The education come out,consumers wanted to change.
So they made the change.
That's where it starts guys itstarts with us as the consumer
We create eight The supply Bywhat we demand Don't ever forget
that you are worth the goodingredients So these companies
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started changing theiringredients list for the
european union Because i didn'twant to lose their customers If
they still had artificial colorsin there the european union
requires them to put a warninglabel on their products So it
was easier and smarter Itbehooves these companies to
spend a little bit more money ontheir ingredients To keep their
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customers So they startedputting things that gave it more
of a natural color or a naturalingredient that provided a color
that was similar to what theyneeded to accomplish and i'm
sure they had to spend a lot ofmoney on You know development
for those But They're still inbusiness so something went right
Maybe they're still in businessBecause, you know they're only
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market our products up threetimes instead of 10 times And
We're paying for them to stay inbusiness and fetus bad stuff we
are we are doing that guys moreprominent international brands
now make dye-free products forcountries that carry this
requirement while still dumbingdown the ingredients for the
same products that they make inthe american market with
artificial food colorings Let'sgo back to the starburst example
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That's one of them okay Why didBecause they can get away with
it.
it is more cost effective forthem It's a bottom line thing
friends Two other examples Oneother example is fruits.
fruit leaves is a cereal thathas made for the european union
without artificial foodcolorings But in the united
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states it is still made withartificial All right How can you
make your food look good Withoutartificial food colorings so if
you're someone who likes to playin the kitchen at home or likes
to experiment or you knowsomeone who does share this
information and maybe they'llmake something for you.
Hi friends.
I know you have things to getback to today.
And obviously I could ramble onall day long about artificial
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food colors and what it does tous and our bodies and our
children.
But I'm going to save you thatand lets you get outta here to
have a good day.
I will promise you though.
But I'll be back on Friday.
Where I'm going to continue thisconversation about artificial
food colors.
I'm going to kind of do a recapon what I've already covered.
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And then I'm going to share withyou the effects that it has on
our animals.
Did you know, they're puttingartificial food colors and our
pet food to.
They are so chime back in onfriday and find out what that's
all about I hope you have agreat day and thank you so much
for joining me today Be sure tosubscribe to this podcast
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wonderful week.
Welcome back to the eco mamapodcast.
Today, I'm really excited totalk to you about artificial
food colorings.
I felt it needed its ownepisode.
What I'm going to share with youtoday are the things that I've
learned about artificial foodcolorings.
Where you normally would findthem.
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And why other countries nolonger allow them?
And why we should be avoidingthem ourselves.
In particularly, I'm gonna talkabout how they affect adults and
how they affect children.
How do they affect our health?
Well, let me give you a littlebit of history of how artificial
food colors first came about.
It all began with the massproduction of foods during the
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industrial revolution.
The powers that be created aneed for these colors.
Because mass production of foodextended the storage of food.
Meaning that it kind of dulledthe color.
Or altered the natural colorsthat were in it.
People didn't want to eat brownfoods.
So they started making someartificial colors that would
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liven it back up.
And make it look fresher than itreally was, and more palatable
to those that they were tryingto sell to.
Initially, those food colors asartificial food colors were
created from coal-basedpigments.
Now.
They found out over time.
After people started gettingsick, that those coal-based
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pigments had heavy metals inthem, such as mercury, copper,
arsenic, and lead.
Jaime (02:13):
So they learned to make the petroleum based pigments,
prompting the first officiallist of approved colors in 1906.
Now they'd already been used fora while, so it's not like they
said, okay, what's safe?
Let's make a list.
And then we'll let people eatthem, to the general public.
No.
They started feeding them to thegeneral public and then they
decided what, based on whosurvived and who didn't get
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sick.
Companies continue to massproduce food.
And I mean, you've seen how it'sevolved in the past hundred
years.
So most everything comes in apackage now, unless it's
straight from the farm.
Even things from the farm getwrapped in plastic.
So sad.
Well, changes occurred on thatlist again and the 1960's.
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It took a while, but when theydid the USA updated it with some
additional restrictions.
Against colors that they learnedwere causing cancers.
Today, many artificial colorsare made with 20 or more
chemicals to achieve the colorthat they desire.
The brighter, the color.
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You guessed it, the more likelyit is to be concentrated and
therefore more hazardous.
There's currently Approvedartificial colors that are
permitted by the FDA.
While they do require some formsof regulation.
These, this regulation is morelike they batch test random
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colors periodically.
And not all ingredients arelisted on labels.
You're probably wondering, well,how do I know what color is your
safe?
If it's not from nature, goodchance, it's not good for you
and I will share with you soonon why.
But these artificial colors thatare being put into foods,
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they're done, mainly just todupe us.
Its own form of greenwashing,but it's a visual greenwashing
as opposed to the verbalmarketing of greenwashing.
They're making the foods lookmore appealing to us.
In particularly children.
I mean, what adult goes down thecereal aisle and says, oh, this
has the brightest colors ever.
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I want it, I want it, I want it.
I don't know many that do.
When we become adults, we'remore looking for a bran and
looking for the fiber contentand lower sugar, but with
children, it's all about thevisuals.
So a lot of the marketing, thatis done on the visual side for
how the colors that are producedare done for children.
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And mind you, artificial foodcolors do not change the food at
all.
They do not change the flavorone bit.
It's just the color of it.
They're nine approved artificialcolors that are permitted.
And those nine are (04:52):
blue one.
Blue to citrus red two.
Green three.
Red three.
Yellow five and yellow six.
So think of these as our primarycolors, and then they blend
these different colors toachieve the color they want
maybe a little bit more blue.
Or a little bit more greendepending on the hue they're
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looking for.
Blue one (05:14):
there's been animal studies done that are linked to
cancer.
Red three (05:19):
which is very, very common.
Now this has got strong evidencethat is linked to thyroid
tumors.
Yellow five (05:27):
creates an allergy like hypersensitivity in both
children and adults.
But it is more prominently seenin children.
And yellow number six is linkedto adrenal gland and kidney
tumors.
So we're looking Cancer.
Neurological disorders.
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Allergies hyperactivity,hypersensitivity.
Adrenal gland tumors and kidneytumors.
I'm just getting started.
Y'all.
Other side effects from foodcolorings, and this is more of a
general, they pulled thesealtogether and it's kind of an
exhausted list.
So fast forward, if you don'twant to be weighed down right
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now, because it's heavy, it isheavy stuff, guys.
But I just feel I feel called toshare this information with you.
So if you stick with me, Youknow, I promise to be real.
With you and natural and.
And then make it as fun aspossible and just be myself, but
some of the material is heavy.
I can't lie.
All right.
Side effects of food, colorings,cancerous tumors of the bladder,
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thyroid and other organs.
Geno toxicity.
It is a mutation of our DNA.
Exacerbated hives and asthma.
I'd probably put that underallergies.
Neuro toxicity.
Irritability and troublesleeping.
This happens a lot with thechildren too.
They're very prone to that.
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Aluminum contamination.
So we know we're taking aluminumout of a lot of our deodorants
now.
But aluminum contamination canstill happen With artificial
food colors, just because of thechemicals that are used to
create those colors.
A negative impact on malefertility.
And irritable bowel syndrome.
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This was new to me.
I've heard of IBS before, and itis caused by excess stress and
most people No that have had it.
But I never really thought abouthow our food was contributing to
irritable bowel syndrome.
I think if a syndrome issomething that's more genetic.
But no, it is contributing toirritable bowel syndrome.
It's creating it.
And some.
It's test subjects.
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The most concerning across theboard of all the things that
have been side effects for the.
Artificial food colors, just thehyperactivity.
Add and ADHD that they see now,this isn't children and adults.
I am not saying by any meansthat artificial food colors.
Cause ADHD.
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Nor am I saying that?
Only those with ADHD areaffected by artificials with
They have found in studies thatwere done.
And I do have a list ofresources in the show notes.
They have found that.
It's kind of random who wouldhit some people have more
sensitivities to theseartificial food colors than
others.
Some it doesn't affect at all.
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You could have.
10 people.
Okay.
Standing next to each other.
Size have ADHD and five do not.
All right.
And various ages, various races,various backgrounds.
And it might hit three of thenon ADHD people and two of the
ADHD subjects.
It's not really particular.
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Those that do get hit with ADHDthat are sensitive are super
sensitive, more, so.
More often there.
Reactions are more intense thanthose without ADHD.
If that makes sense.
Now, when it comes to thetesting, even though.
It's been going on for obviouslysince 1906, they've been
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monitoring it.
Now not a lot of changes havebeen made or laws have been
written around it, but someoneout there is paying attention
because where else would thisinformation come from with these
tests and studies?
A lot of the tests that are doneand published in the medical
industry give us limited resultsand the reasons for As, because
most of these cases only testone color at a time with one
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food at a time.
So when we talk about ourproducts that we use every day,
And if we Isolating thoseproducts and maybe one
ingredient in that product.
We only know what that oneingredient does.
We don't know what it does wheninteracted with the other
ingredients of that product.
Okay, so yellow number five,mixed with something else.
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Could have a different responseto the body.
They're not testing that.
They're just extracting theyellow number five and testing
it on the subject.
In addition to that.
It doesn't share what it lookslike when these are all
compounded.
So if you're using 10 productswith yellow, number five, two
with red 40, and then three withblue one, it doesn't show the
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reactions of your body withthese different artificial food
colorings commingling in oursystem each and every single
day.
So the results of how theseaffects us are still very, very
limited, even though it's been,you know what, 120 years, 115
years they've been doing thesetests.
It's not, they just haven'texpanded it.
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They haven't, I don't thinkthey've really put a lot of
energy into it.
And a lot of these tests, itneeds to be said.
I said they were in the medicalindustry.
They are not done by thirdparties.
The majority of them.
There's very few that have beendone by third parties that are
impartial to the results.
These tests are usuallyperformed and Reported by the
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chemical industry itself.
I also need to note that,remember I mentioned that
artificial food colors.
Did not change the food in anyway.
It didn't change the flavor.
It also doesn't change thenutritional value they have had
zero evidence that it increasedthe health of the food that
you're eating.
So there are zero healthbenefits to adding it.
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Again, they are only addingthese colors to make it look
prettier and more enticing forus to spend our money on.
It is surely less expensive forthese companies that are mass
producing foods to use theartificial colors than it is to
use real food and invest theirmoney into real food that would
create these different colors,such as real fruit or other
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healthy ingredients that couldlend to the natural food
colorings.
Another reason our results arelimited in testing is that most
early studies on humans are onlymonitored for up to two years.
In contrast, testing that hasbeen done on lab rats.
They need up to three years tosee the prominent signs of
cancers.
Only some studies are managed bythird rather than the chemical
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industry who does the majorityof them.
Alright, what foods containartificial food coloring.
That's that's a really goodquestion.
I think it would be easier tosay what doesn't have it.
So, let me start there becausethat's a shorter list.
Things that do not haveartificial food coloring.
Fresh food.
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Real fresh food where you know,where it comes from the source.
Fresh food that you picked offthe vine.
That you got from the field.
Or that you got from the farmer,Joe, that you know, down at the
farmer's market.
That you can pretty muchguarantee those vegetables and
fruits are safe.
When it comes to meats, it needsto not be processed.
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So your sausages that areprocessed, even the casings on
those sausages.
They get artificial foodcoloring quite often.
So, if you don't know, who'sprocessing your meat for you,
chances are it might still haveit in there.
Artificial food coloring is notgoing to kill you in one day.
As with other chemicals andharmful ingredients, it takes a
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compound of them into your body,into your system.
But years and years and years ofusing products and eating foods
with artificial food colorings.
Can have.
Negative effects on your body,especially, if you are prone to
be sensitive to them.
And that would be about 8% ofthe population in our children.
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I was not able to find thestatistics on what population of
the adults have thehypersensitivity or
hyper-reactivity to artificialfood colorings, but it is 8% in
children right now that theyhave found.
And the reason that it's moreconcentrated with children and
it's easier to track is becausechildren are the ones that are
getting all of these artificialsof color and we are letting our
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children eat these ingredientsand use these products with
these artificial food colorsthat are having this negative
adverse effects on them.
Now it says that for children,about 90% of the food industry
and the personal care productindustry.
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That is geared towards children.
90% of that has artificial foodcolorings in and the only way to
really know that it's gotartificial food coloring is to
turn over and look at the labelsfriends.
That is the only way to know.
And I say that because we wereliterally just at target this
past week, it was my daughter's10th birthday.
And she got, I bless all ourfriends and family.
She got so many gift cards, mygoodness.
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And I've never take themshopping because I'm just, I,
besides being frugal, I also tryto minimize big box shopping and
a target can be that.
Not that you can't find goodvalue there.
It's just not where I tend tospend a lot of time.
She also got a Starbucks card,so we spent the day in target
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and with Starbucks walkingaround and granted it could have
been the mall.
So it's not like it was the endof the world.
I, I survived.
It was fine.
But she get these targets giftcards and we go and we're
walking and they, her and hersister, they tried on some
clothes and they found a coupleof things they wanted.
My son found a little toy Nerfgun he wanted.
So they were using their money.
They got to buy these things.
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No problem.
I however decided to walk downnear the food.
Cause I wanted to see if theyhad any good sales and that was
a mistake because, you know, Iwasn't thinking having the kids
with me that they're going tojust start grabbing things and
mom, can I have this mom?
Can I have that?
My rule with shopping is, youmust read the labels and if it
has artificial food coloring orartificial guys or artificial
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flavors, which will be a whole,another episode on its own.
Then I say, no, I won't buy itfor Now they did get candy from
trick or treating.
They do go to friends houses.
They get artificial foodcoloring in their diet.
But it's not worth tempting fateto see what might happen to
them.
We just try to minimize it inour food.
So anything that's pre-packaged,which is like 98% of what
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children want most of the time.
I have them checked.
Now, my daughter brings me thisbox of cereal and on the very
front of it, it says made withnatural flavors and colors.
She's like, look, mom, Naturalflavors and This is good.
This is safe.
She drops it in the car and I'mlike, whoa, not Honey.
It didn't say it.
Wasn't made.
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With artificial colors.
Is that it's made with natural.
So let's flip it over and lookat the full ingredients list.
We'll share enough.
It had artificial flavors andartificial colors, narrative
backed It three differentartificial colors in there.
So we put So just because it maylook.
Like it's safe on the front.
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We'll need to turn over that Andread for yourself.
What is actually in it?
These food dyes.
These artificial food colors,they will tell you to my
knowledge, it is just.
Just the straight color Andthere's only nine to look for.
So just try to avoid foods thatare in those nine.
So a full roundabout way to getback to what it is actually in.
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So foods that contain Fishelfood coloring.
Anything packaged.
That's the easy way to say.
If you want to avoid it, justavoid anything that is
pre-packaged.
And by that, I mean the processfood, you think of anything
that's The mass produced.
But as you have quite anexhausted list, so I will rattle
it off.
But again, this will be includedin the show notes or in the
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transcripts transcription.
Hi, sugar breakfast.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
That's going to have it,especially the brighter, the
brighter, the deeper, I thinkit's probably going to be in
there.
Gelatin desserts, ice pops.
Really.
Ketchup.
Mustard.
You think we'll catch up is fromtomatoes that's already read.
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Yes, it is.
However, once you put thosepreservatives in and you leave
it tomato sitting long enoughthe preservatives will keep the
flavor.
Over there, but that color.
This is going to change becausenature's going to kind of
deteriorated, right?
So they add red back to thecatch-up.
To make it read again.
Now you can get organicingredients.
And organic products should nothave any artificial for coloring
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in there.
That being said, there areoptions on all of these things
I'm mentioning that can comewithout artificial food
colorings.
But you have to pay attention toit.
More often than not the genericversion, unless it's like a
trader Joe's possibly a wholefoods, but still no guarantee.
You're going to get artificialcolors in there.
So it's learning a brand,knowing a brand or learning how
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to make these things yourself.
People may catch up at home ontheir own.
People make their own ice pops.
They make their own gelatindesserts.
We make our own granola.
So the cereals for Hot chocolatemix.
Pasta.
Yogurt waffles.
Chocolate milkshakes.
Cracker and she stacks.
Chicken coding mixes.
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Barbecue sauce.
Butter really.
It is already brown.
I don't see why you would needto preserve.
Color to make important.
Microwave popcorn.
Huh?
I wonder if that's the buttercolor they put on And those
process foods.
Yeah, bam.
They're just, you know, rightthere in one word, processed
foods, two words actually.
Canned foods, candy processedbeverages.
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Here's one for you.
And I avoid this just becauseI've learned what they're being
fed.
Farmed fish actually.
Color the fish, my friends.
So when I said, if you don'tknow, who's processing your meat
for you or cutting up theanimal, if you're not a
vegetarian.
Or filling Fish yeah, you needto pay a little closer attention
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to that.
So, I've learned that most farmfish corn diet and most of that
corn is from GMO fields.
So I stopped eating farm.
Farmed fish.
I stopped eating farm fish.
More than 10 years ago.
And I believe.
That's a shame because I reallydidn't enjoy.
I always thought I was doinggood, but I there's no such
thing as fresh to laugh atanymore.
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It's all farms.
Anyway, so that, that beautifulfarm salmon that you've been
buying that bright pink.
There's a good chance if it'sfarms that it's not a natural,
right.
I do that so that it looksfresher so that you'll buy
Jello.
Candy like lollipops, Cirrus.
Okay.
Syrups are huge.
Syrup's I don't like anythingbut pure maple syrup.
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And I've met some people whohave family and friends that
actually have.
Farms, they have maple syrupfarms up in the Northeast and
that's we order our syrup everyyear from there and I love it.
And if I run out, then Idefinitely go the extra mile and
spend the extra money on puremaple syrup because all the
other syrups really are just Ifyou ask me.
(20:41):
Here maple syrup is the way togo.
Gummy bears and gummy worms.
Should have written that out,right.
Like Skittles.
Sour patch kids jolly.
Starburst.
Okay.
Here's an interesting fact foryou.
Starburst.
They have these fruit shoes,right.
And they make, they make themfor internationally to other
countries.
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European union has so many bandson their personal care products.
They also have a ton of bands onwhat can be used in the food
products.
And one of those is the foodcolorings that America does not
ban.
So Starburst makes all naturalcolor colored fruit chew that
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they sell in Europe.
Do they sell that here?
No.
Why would they spend more moneyon their products when they can
get away with salmon it downwith artificial food colors,
they still use artificial colorshere.
But the Starburst in Europe.
It's much safer for ourchildren, even though it's still
a high sugar content.
But the Starburst in Europe.
Much safer because it doesn'thave the artificial food colors.
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That just goes to show you thatregulations really do matter.
And when you vote and actuallytoday, is voting day.
So if you haven't already goneout there, hit pause or get in
your car and take this with Gunsthough guys.
I'm not telling you who to votefor how to vote.
But if you don't like the waythings are, and you're not
someone to get up and make thechange yourself for this
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country, then find someone whobelieves in what you believe in
support them so that thosechanges can be made.
I know a lot of people are veryunhappy with the way politics
have.
Become, and I don't even like todiscuss politics, but I do think
it is important to vote.
I'm not going to run forgovernor.
I'm not going to run for office.
I'm not going to do any Stuff.
It's just not my thing.
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But I would like to see thingsimprove.
So I try to do my research andfind people who going for things
that I think are important and Isupport them and I vote for
them.
Frostings.
We make our own frosting at homeand they do have a all natural
food coloring that you can buy alittle bit more expensive.
I did find it on Amazon.
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If I remember I'll put a link inthe show notes, but it's
possible to make.
Fun stuff.
You just got to do it at homeinstead of buying it, all the
process stuff at the stores.
Sports drinks like Gatorade andPDL lights.
Boxed macaroni.
Gum.
Gummy.
It has plastic in it.
If you didn't know that, sorry,sorry to spoil you there.
Health energy and mealreplacement bars.
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Granola bars.
Shoot me a message because Ihave a great granola recipe.
From a hundred days of real foodand I've been making it for 15
years now and we can makegranola bars out of it too.
It's actually Alcohol.
There's some alcohol that hasartificial food colors in it.
He imagined.
You've seen the fire.
Red and the Let's see compariand chartreuse, like the bright
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purple drinks.
Old fashioned, bitters andliquors like Aperol.
They all have food coloringadded to them.
This one really shocked me.
But it absolutely makes sense.
Apples.
Oranges.
Oranges.
Some oranges have actually beendipped in artificial food
coloring.
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To make them more uniform.
It is ever heard of misfitsproduce.
It's an online place where youcan order food.
And it's misfits of produce thatthey didn't meet the industry
standard of beautiful.
So maybe a pepper grew sidewaysor Strawberry had three butts on
it or yeah, the plumb came outkind of greenish, but it still
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tasted delicious.
And they didn't want to treat itwith anything or they couldn't
treat it with anything to makeit more uniform.
So then they sold it at adiscount to the people who put
together misfits it's ingeniousoutfit, for sure.
So the food is still natural.
It just looks more like natureintended it to not the picture
of things that.
Society has told us to, and.
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Think about teeth.
I'm cheap.
Not everyone is born with whiteteeth, friends.
Okay.
So Archie had a national yellowtent.
To them.
It's just a matter of How muchof a tense.
But society has white So nowwhen we see someone with yellow
teeth, we think, Ooh, gross,dirty.
Or yeah.
Can I tell you how much I loveseeing an actor in a movie with
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just real color teeth, not allglammed out glow in the dark
white teeth.
How cool is that like that'sokay.
Just be you just So orange issometimes are not allowed to be
themselves.
They have to be dipped in theseartificial food colorings.
So they look like what we expectthem to look like bright orange.
Matters to me.
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What it tastes like on theinside.
And if I do have an orange and Ido care about I want it to smell
like a real orange and to be areal orange.
If you need fresh fruit for anyzesting.
And it doesn't, it nevermentioned limes or lemons, but
I'm going to go the extra mileand say, get organic.
If you're going to be zestingfruit for a recipe or a dressing
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or garnish.
Go organic.
Okay?
That's the only way to reallyreally know.
You're getting safe staff.
All right.
A few more products here listed.
List is cheese, butter, icecream.
Sandwich bread.
There is this it's, it's in theresources as well.
It is a TedTalk that this doctordid.
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And she talked about how her sonhad been affected.
But it's such a great episode towatch just to understand it
more.
It's only like 10 or 12 minutes,they thought they had cleared
their son's diet of all food andlike nine months into a
artificial food coloring, freediet.
His behavior started to like getwonky again and What it was.
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She noticed that he'd beeneating a lot of bagels lately
and she buys all the food.
He doesn't sneak food.
He knows how important it is forhim because of all the struggles
that he had with his reactionsto artificial food colorings.
She checked the bagels and itdidn't say anything on it, but
it was an egg bagel.
And she's like, what?
Why is this egg bagel kind ofyellow?
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The bakery where they make itand sure enough, they added one
of the yellow food dyes and tothose.
And that's where the culpritwas.
So it's not always listed Guys.
It's so sad.
It's not always.
He's listed.
But we do our due diligence andtry to eliminate what we can.
Alright pickles, your picklesare not always bright green
friends.
Hey, has Coloring to those jars,you can make your own pickles at
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home.
You can either buy a freshcucumber that you know, was
organic and then make yourpickles, or you can grow them in
your own garden.
And Jerry are pickles andthey'll be good for years Well,
I don't salad dressing.
Again, I like to make my ownanyway, I really don't find a
bottle.
I feel like money, just a littleoil.
Oil and vinegar, salt andpepper.
Fresh garlic.
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You get to go.
Farmed salmon.
I already talked about the farmfish.
All right.
Products with artificial Thismight blow your mind.
When I first learned this, whenmy children were a little.
It truly blew my mind and Istarted paying.
Extra for the stuff without theartificial food colorings.
And it sucks that I had to dothat, but then you got to think.
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Am I really paying extra for thesafer ingredients.
Or am I.
Am.
I like.
Cheap chinsing out on myself,buying the cheap stuff, knowing
that they're not spending themoney for.
The quality of the ingredients.
That I deserve.
To make it so obviously they cansell it for less.
I believe that it's okay tospend a little bit more money On
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products that have ingredientsYou know, are safe.
Because you're being proactiveabout your health, and there's a
good chance that we're going tosave money in the long run on
our health expenses.
That's my 2 cents.
There.
Okay.
Vitamins.
Yes vitamins Have artificialfood colorings.
Why would I add that?
Make it more enticing Children'sto take them.
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Cough syrups.
Eva reducers Tylenol.
Do you think Tylenol isnaturally bright pink?
We're not even talking aboutflavors I'm just talking about
the colors Toothpaste.
Now one shampoo conditioners.
Lotions Care products.
Stringent such as toners.
Facial skin treatments,deodorants.
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Liquid cleansers.
Laundry detergent.
Lip moisturizer.
Soaps.
And guess what.
Well, bass.
We'd like spell bats.
Well, I'm raising my hand herecause I do however it's children
who like level bass guys.
We're putting them in these hotpink and bright purple bubble
bass.
Just for fun to have.
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I have such a cute.
That time.
We're soaking them andartificial food colors, guys.
Remember what I said about, orif you haven't heard this
before, it's in several.
All of my previous episodes, ourskin is our largest Whatever you
put on your body is going to getin your Just remember that.
Okay.
So your laundry detergent isthere's artificial food coloring
in your laundry detergent, andyou think, well, I don't eat
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that.
It doesn't matter.
It does matter because it'sgetting on your clothes and it's
soaking into those fibers.
And then those fibers are on.
On your body and whatever's onthose.
And then soaking into your skincells.
And into your.
Okay.
So it does matter.
All right.
So I mentioned a little bitabout the European union
standards.
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So isn't just America strugglingwith.
With these artificial foodcolorings.
It's not an absolute yes, but.
But I would say Yeah, we're kindof causing our own problems here
by letting so many companiesstill feed it to us.
So the European union hasrequired many companies to omit
them from their ingredients.
For the few that are notrequired.
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Because many, many of themreally just volunteered once
they saw.
The education come out,consumers wanted to change.
So they made the change.
That's where it starts guys itstarts with us as the consumer
We create eight The supply Bywhat we demand Don't ever forget
that you are worth the goodingredients So these companies
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started changing theiringredients list for the
european union Because i didn'twant to lose their customers If
they still had artificial colorsin there the european union
requires them to put a warninglabel on their products So it
was easier and smarter Itbehooves these companies to
spend a little bit more money ontheir ingredients To keep their
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customers So they startedputting things that gave it more
of a natural color or a naturalingredient that provided a color
that was similar to what theyneeded to accomplish and i'm
sure they had to spend a lot ofmoney on You know development
for those But They're still inbusiness so something went right
Maybe they're still in businessBecause, you know they're only
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market our products up threetimes instead of 10 times And
We're paying for them to stay inbusiness and fetus bad stuff we
are we are doing that guys moreprominent international brands
now make dye-free products forcountries that carry this
requirement while still dumbingdown the ingredients for the
same products that they make inthe american market with
artificial food colorings Let'sgo back to the starburst example
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That's one of them okay Why didBecause they can get away with
it.
it is more cost effective forthem It's a bottom line thing
friends Two other examples Oneother example is fruits.
fruit leaves is a cereal thathas made for the european union
without artificial foodcolorings But in the united
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states it is still made withartificial All right How can you
make your food look good Withoutartificial food colorings so if
you're someone who likes to playin the kitchen at home or likes
to experiment or you knowsomeone who does share this
information and maybe they'llmake something for you.
Hi friends.
I know you have things to getback to today.
And obviously I could ramble onall day long about artificial
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food colors and what it does tous and our bodies and our
children.
But I'm going to save you thatand lets you get outta here to
have a good day.
I will promise you though.
But I'll be back on Friday.
Where I'm going to continue thisconversation about artificial
food colors.
I'm going to kind of do a recapon what I've already covered.
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And then I'm going to share withyou the effects that it has on
our animals.
Did you know, they're puttingartificial food colors and our
pet food to.
They are so chime back in onfriday and find out what that's
all about I hope you have agreat day and thank you so much
for joining me today Be sure tosubscribe to this podcast
channel so that you never miss achance to connect with me Have a
(33:25):
wonderful week.
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