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Other than bakery items, what foods do you regularly eat that depend on having a specific color? I don't see how that's anything other than a marketing tool to
by kstrauser 2y ago
Other than bakery items, what foods do you regularly eat that depend on having a specific color? I don't see how that's anything other than a marketing tool to make them stand out on store shelves. When you order something in a restaurant, you typically don't even know what their version will look like until it gets to your table. I've never, not once, added dyes to home cooking outside of cake icings and things like that.
There've been ridiculous attempts to get rid of perfectly innocent flavor enhancers before, like the fight against MSG. Take out MSG, and food tastes less good. But take out a borderline red dye, and what's the worst that happens? Factories have to sell soda that's slightly less pretty in the bottle?
- 1970-01-01 2y agoCheese Tuna Pickles Oranges (apples as well, but I can't find an old article) Wasabi Apricots Ginger Salmon https://www.treehugger.com/foods-youd-never-guess-were-artificially-colored-4863947 https://www.treehugger.com/foods-youd-never-guess-were-artif...
- kstrauser 2y agoThose are dyed, but they don't depend on the dye for nutrition or taste. Wasabi isn't less delicious if it's a lighter or different hue.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoThe saying goes you eat with your eyes. These things depend on dye as they rot on the shelf otherwise. A paper on it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938412002703 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00319...
- deathanatos 2y agoI mean … the pickled ginger served by my local Japanese sushi place is … well, the color of ginger (same shade as like a ginger beer) and it tastes fine to me?
- account42 2y agoThey rot on the shelves ... when competitors can make their alternatives more flamboyant to stand out. Not if everyone stops needlessly coloring those foods.
- smugma 2y agoCheetos, skittles, Froot Loops, Gatorade, salsa, salad dressing To paraphrase Shakespeare, “Would a Cheeto by any other color taste as savory?”
- glenneroo 2y agoVery off-topic but I can't wait to read in the news about some kids school report about Shakespeare being written by some LLM which has training data that includes this quote ;)
- nobody9999 2y agoDon't forget red meat either. In many cases[0][1][2] it's treated with carbon monoxide to make it look redder. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5848116/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5848116/ [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3801706&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3801706&page=1 [2] https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2005/11/17/FDA-asked-to-rescind-use-of-carbon-monoxide-for-meats/ https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2005/11/17/FDA-ask...
- hombre_fatal 2y ago> what foods do you regularly eat that depend on having a specific color? Probably all of them. We are super sensitive to colors. Red meat and fish like tuna and salmon have carbon monoxide and sodium nitrate treatment just to keep them red because that's how people think they can judge quality. > Consumers will pay up to $1 per pound more for darker colored salmon compared to salmon with lighter hues, according to research by DSM, a company that supplies pigmenting compounds to the salmon feed industry.
- kstrauser 2y ago> according to research by DSM, a company that supplies pigmenting compounds to the salmon feed industry Seriously? Alternatively, if we stopped dyeing fish, a year later people will have totally recalibrated what they think fresh, healthy fish looks like.
- canucker2016 2y agoOnly for farmed salmon. Wild salmon eat krill and other smaller organisms, many of which provide the components to turn the salmon meat a shade of pink. Farmed salmon don't get the same components in their feed, so their meat isn't the same colour. So the farmers add some of those components into the salmon feed, et voila - pink salmon meat. see https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-healthy-antioxidant.html https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-heal...
- idunnoman1222 2y agoWe feed chickens, Merigold flowers to make their yolks darker