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There is actual evidence of some dyes causing behavioral issues in some children.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9052604/
It happened to my son. When he was 2, he would barely talk and had behavioral issues. We stopped red and yellow dye, and within two weeks he was much calmer and saying full sentences. No lie. Most people don’t believe us, but it most definitely happened.
Out of curiosity what foods had the dyes in them that you had to cut? I imagine it's in some things you'd never think of
A lot of it was obvious, like dessert foods. But some were sneakier. I couldn’t tell you for sure because that was 16 years ago. It was a whole diet called the Feingold diet, and it was pretty restrictive.
For science, you must now reintroduce him to the dyes and record the results.
Further testing will be done on a double-blind basis.
Eventually he did start eating them again, maybe when he was about 8? It didn’t seem to cause the same issues then, but it’s hard to tell because he has severe ADHD, and I didn’t exactly measure his symptoms when in and off the dye. He is 18 now so it’s hard to remember.
There may also be evidence of certain red foods being red because of ingredients other than red food dye.
No way! Water you trying to say food can have natural colours?
Almost as if what's in the photo, for all we know, might be strawberry mush.
I like that they'll admit that, then in the same breath say sugar has no affect on kids.
Sugar itself doesn't, I've never seen a study showing an actual link between the two. It's instead excitement to getting something special, not the sugar causing a chemical reaction. Causation and correlation are different.
As an ADHD person, the "all these problems are caused by sugar" conversation has always been an extra hilarious one for me.
And then I post this.