Most Americans support banning food dyes—but what drives diet quality is behavior, marketing and access. Removing dyes won’t fix what’s wrong with how we eat.
ByBrian Castrucci,
Contributor.
Americans will fight about almost anything — but not this: they don’t want chemicals coloring their kids’ food. And they’re right.
But removing food dyes won’t fix what’s broken in the American diet.
This is the illusion of clean: we strip out the most visible ingredient, keep everything else the same and call it progress.
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