On: US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods

[kstrauser]

Those 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 → kstrauser]

The 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/S00319...

[account42 → 1970-01-01]

They rot on the shelves ... when competitors can make their alternatives more flamboyant to stand out. Not if everyone stops needlessly coloring those foods.

[deathanatos → 1970-01-01]

I 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?