Food companies add more than 15 million pounds of artificial dyes to our food each year this is five times the amount added to the food supply when our parents were children.
Artificial food dyes have been linked to behavioral problems and some cancers
In Europe they require with food dyes to come with a warning label and they have band many of the dyes still used in the US
Many people come in contact with food dye without even realizing it in toothpaste crackers pickles yogurt potato chips pasta and all their food that would not be obvious sources of dyes.