Fake Food Coloring & Kids

[Pooja]

About 15 million pounds of petroleum-based dyes are used in food each year. 
And a certain kind of red food coloring, known as “Red 3,” is a known carcinogen that the FDA banned from our medicines and makeup in 1990, but it’s still used in our foods.
Links are being found to hyperactivity in kids (ADHD), cancer and serious food allergies.
But here is the truly amazing thing, and for those of us who have fed our kids these color-laden foods, perhaps the toughest thing to stomach: Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal-Mart have already removed these artificial food colors and dyes from the same products that they distribute in other countries.


Source: http://blogs.prevention.com/inspired-bites/2012/10/29/dont-mix-fake-food-colors-kids/