Instead, the company primarily used beetroot juice and purple sweet potatoes ... one of the world’s largest dye manufacturers ...

Joseph Borzelleca published a study on the food coloring Red No. 3. The FDA cited his work when banning the additive in ...

MU researchers have been changing the color of corn to see whether purple breeds can provide potential health benefits.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed a bill into law this week that bans some artificial dyes as well as two preservatives from foods sold statewide.

In its place they use beet juice; carmine, a dye made from insects; or pigments from foods such as purple sweet potato, radish, and red cabbage. It isn't clear how the FDA determined that Red 3 ...

Narrator: No one likes finding bugs in their food when they're ... and kind of a purply, deep purple-red color, and that's the source of cochineal, cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna ...

Growing concerns about the health effects of food dyes have led to a new West Virginia law banning seven artificial food dyes — but what does this mean for those in other states? And where else ...

Seeing red? The US Food and Drug Administration officially banned Red Dye No. 3, a popular food coloring tied to thyroid cancer. Although the decision marks the beginning of the end for the ...

why do food makers use dyes in the first place? The press framed the answer as a corporate ploy to sell more candy, but the story's a bit more complicated than that. Let's take a closer look. On ...

At least 20 other states are considering bills restricting the use of certain food dyes and additives. By Alice Callahan In the most sweeping move of its kind, West Virginia has banned foods ...