We discussed artificial food dyes almost a year ago. Most artificial food dyes contain petroleum
Avoid Artificial Colors – Ep. #008 – Healthy Living Podcast
Petroleum is the same ingredient that is used for oil and gas. The FDA has admitted that ingestion is typically under the “concern threshold.”
Well, I am not letting my child or myself ingest this nor do I trust their “concern threshold.” Why is any amount of petroleum good?
If you see Yellow 5 and Red 40 as part of the ingredients, chances are these are made from petroleum. They’ve been found to cause hyperactivity in children, cancer, allergic reactions. headaches, hypersensitivity, obesity, ADD/ADHD, chromosomal damage, hives, asthma, diabetes, eczema, insomnia.
And we know that they want to convert the human population to full on bug eaters. Their excuse of course being we need to control carbon emissions and to address exploding human population growth.
Snacks with organic cricket flour contain a substance called “chitin” which cannot be properly digested by the human gut, but can possibly contribute to illnesses including cancer.
But did you know they are using insects in our foods. One natural red food dye is cochineal extract. Anytime you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, there’s a little powdered bug there too.
Cochineal extract is extracted from the cochineal, specifically the female, a species of insect that belongs to the order entomologists refer to as the “true bugs.” (Don’t trust any account that calls this bug a beetle — it’s not).
When Europeans descended on South America in the 1500s, they discovered that the Aztecs were producing vibrant, cochineal-dyed fabrics that retained their color for an incredibly long time. Soon, dried cochineal became a major trade good.
Today, cochineals are harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands on plantations of prickly pear cacti, the bugs’ preferred host. There, the insects are sun-dried, crushed, and dunked in an acidic alcohol solution to produce carminic acid, the pigment that eventually becomes carmine or cochineal extract, depending on processing. About 70,000 insects are needed to produce a pound of dye.
Until 2009, cochineal was one of many dyes that fell under the umbrella term “natural color” on ingredients lists. But because cochineal provokes severe allergic reactions in some people, the Food and Drug Administration requires carmine and cochineal extract to be explicitly identified in ingredients lists.
In addition to food, cochineal is used as a dye in cosmetics products, including lipstick, and at least one person has reported a severe allergic reaction to a cochineal dye used in a pill coating.
Most products have quantities under the threshold required by the FDA. The problem is if it is in more than one product, you have already gone over the threshold. Most likely, everyone has toxic amounts of dyes and preservatives in their bodies, because it is in everything they eat. America is being poisoned by this stuff!
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