Discover what FDA's red dye ban means for your food safety. Learn which synthetic colors remain in your favorite foods and ...

If you've ever opened a can of oysters and discovered a noticeable green tint to the meat, you may have been tempted to toss ...

The red-dye ban in the U.S. is particularly relevant this month because of Valentine’s day and all the red-colored foods we ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The wasabi served alongside your sushi is most likely horseradish and mustard dyed green — unless you're in Japan. Produced by Emma Fierberg. Original reporting ...

Green No. 3, Orange B, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Citrus Red − all used to give food, drinks and ingested drugs bright colors. The FDA's ban is in response to a color additive petition ...

And nowhere has that been more blatant than the American food palate, where the visual spectrum we choose from includes not only the primary colors but artificial ones that nature couldn’t even ...

Household bleach reacts with a solution of green food coloring to first oxidize the yellow component of the dye, leaving only the blue coloring. Eventually, the blue dye is also oxidized, and the ...

you can try chromatography to separate colors in a mixture of food coloring! Place a coffee filter on a tray or newspaper. In a small plastic cup, add 2 drops of green food coloring. Use a cotton swab ...

The aqueous solution of food color is blue. Iodine in water is yellow, and when added to the food color the result is a green solution. When this aqueous solution is extracted with organic solvents ...