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I'm not sure what you have in mind; Tartrazine is lemon yellow (although of course often mixed to create other colors) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine
by DougMerritt 11y ago
I'm not sure what you have in mind; Tartrazine is lemon yellow (although of course often mixed to create other colors)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine
The famously banned "red dye number whatever" I think was red dye number 2, banned in 1976 due to suspected carcinogenicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)
But there are so many dyes that I can't be sure what you meant.
I will say, though, that although many food additives are ultimately a bad idea in one way or another, historically most of the suspected carcinogens are not, because humans are resilient in ways that mice are not (in part due to two million years of cooked food, and in part due to testing using cancer-prone inbred mice for decades).
- balabaster 11y agoThanks for the clarification. I was mixing up E102 as it is labelled int the UK (Tartrazine) which was banned in 2013 due to being linked to aggravating/causing ADHD and Red Dye Number 2 which was banned in North America in 1976 due to being a Carcinogen. [One of the downfalls of being an immigrant is that after a while you can never remember (or perhaps just lose the inclination to care) which news applied in which jurisdiction and not the other and which numbering systems belong where]