The rainbow of food dyes in our grocery aisles has a dark side: history

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*/The rainbow of food dyes in our grocery aisles has a dark side/*

By W. Schab and F. son, Friday, March 25, 8:51 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rainbow-of-food-dyes-in-our-grocery-a\

isles-has-a-dark-side/2011/03/21/AFyIwaYB_story.html

Today's supermarket is a fun house of hues. Its aisles feature riotously

colored processed foods perfectly engineered to appeal to the part of

your brain that says " yum " : Technicolor Starburst candy. Polychromatic

Froot Loops. A rainbow of flavored juices.

Those hyper-saturated colors have come to seem normal, even natural,

like the come-ons of tropical fruits. But they are increasingly produced

through the magic of artificial food dyes, applied not just to candies

and snack foods but to such seemingly all-natural products as pickles,

salad dressing and some oranges.

Artificial dyes aren't just making your Yoplait Light Red Raspberry

yogurt blush and your Kraft Macaroni and Cheese glow in the dark. They

are causing behavioral problems and disrupting children's attention,

according to a growing number of scientific studies...