• Kraft Blames Consumers For Food Dyes

    Kraft Dinner has organic, natural products but says fans prefer the original formula – filled with harmful dyes. Synthetic dyes are used not only to create a fun product but to maintain colour life. While natural alternatives exist and are used in the United Kingdom, American and Canadian companies still use these harmful substances. Since 2008, England has asked for a voluntary ban of of six common synthetic food dyes: Tartrazine (Yellow 4), Quinoline Yellow (Yellow 13), Sunset Yellow (Yellow 3), Carmoisine (Red 3), Ponceau 4R (Red 7) and Allura Red (Red 17). These dyes were flagged when a government funded study in The Lancet showed increased hyperactivity in children…