Food Coloring...Not as pretty as you think.

This story is not that surprising, is it? I mean you've read that red coloring comes from ground up beetles, haven't you? Makes you think twice about eating those red M&Ms.

I know you may have just finished eating lunch but here is some info for your afternoon delight....


     F.D.A. Panel to Consider Warnings for Artificial Food   
     Colorings

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: March 29, 2011

WASHINGTON — After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods like Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid Lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems like hyperactivity in some children.

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