Work for a food company dealing with fallout from this, all of our strawberry products have red #3 in it and there’s alot of discussion swirling around this (though none of the stuff I personally work on is affected, so I’m not privy to any specifics). For whatever reason, they’re not going with any alternative red dyes (cost is a probable factor), so we’re just going to have not-pink strawberry stuff. Though I think there was quite a bit of market research done and alot of people just preferred not having any sort of coloring added. So then we have to wrestle with the packaging because how do you convey that this vanilla-looking food is actually strawberry-flavored? It messes a bit with the packaging we already had, but whatever. I imagine food companies all over the place are dealing with this same question.
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Why do you need to dye strawberries when they are already red? Fucking dumb as hell.
When I hear stuff like this is makes me sure that food companies are intentionally trying to give us cancer.
Because there aren't strawberries in it either. At least not whole ones.
Just a crazy idea, but just throw a strawberry 🍓 on the package near the flavor name. Boom, solved!
I'm sorry, but "how do you convey a food is strawberry flavored?" is a terrible excuse. Pictures and words like we've done for all recorded history. The idea that X taste has to be Y color is an unnecessary human invention. You should be driven more by the content of your food, than how "pretty" it is. Dressing up junk to make it palatable shouldn't be the end goal.
You should be driven more by the content of your food, than how "pretty" it is.
That's not how people work.
You could have the most delicious beef Wellington on the planet, but if it looks like monkey brains, it's going to give people a gag reflex. If you have a good that your brain expects to taste one way and it tastes another way, then it might cause a gag reflex or other aversion. Of your food looks spoiled, people will be adverse to it even if it's fresh and perfectly fine.
You can't undo human survival evolution because it's 'unnecessary' with the snap of your fingers.
Except that modern colors are faked. Natural strawberry stuff isn't red. "Red cookie = strawberry" is not reality. This idea that the whole food has to be the color of its flavor is manufactured. You expect it now because it's all you've ever known.
This has nothing to do with spoiled food and you're being completely disingenuous.
Welp, I’m gonna check my pantry now for any of these ingredients.
These aren't the only toxic additives allowed in food in the US by the way but it's a good start. On account of Google no longer being a search engine I have attempted to find you a more comprehensive list and given up after looking at the first 3 links since they don't go anywhere that looks reputable. Maybe someone else knows a good source for us?