normally the issue people have with food dye its red 40, so they might just say "no food dyes" for simplicity, but for things with ingredients list they just read the ingredients.
While mom did say not allowed, a person can be allergic to only one food dye or a few. I have a niece allergic to red, and my mom and law and daughter react to yellow.
Omg, we had this presentation with mandatory attendance in our dorm where they slandered the instant foods we ate and such. But at one point they pulled out the "Do you know what the red food coloring comes from? The crushed chitin of these red beetles!" Me: "Uhm, so that means it's completely natural. How is that bad again?" "Well... isn't it disgusting?!" -.- Just leave me and my instant noodle soup alone.
@@alexaczigany9470this reminds me of a video by FoldingIdeas here on RU-vid, which was about Jamie Oliver's war on chicken nuggets; how he's trying to say "they're so horrible, they're made from chicken bits" but Dan of FoldingIdeas rightfully points out how that's not bad in any way - chicken is chicken, no matter if it's the breast or the neck. It's a really good video, I recommend it
@@bib4eto656 the funniest moment is still when he guides the children through the process how chicken nuggets are made and at then and he sarcastically asks "so who wants to eat nuggies?" but all the children enthusiastically throws their hands up and cheers for nuggies xD
@@alexaczigany9470Not to mention that was done in Huntington, West Virginia. It’s a place not very economically privileged. No crap the kids will still eat nuggets, that’s just what they’ve got.
Ugh I feel this. I work at a dessert place that sells ice cream that's dairy free, gluten free and vegan. I always tell the customers that if they ask. Yes it does have added sugar and even though the ice cream is mostly water, coconut oil with freeze dried powdered fruit it's by no means healthy but atleast it's tasty. And yet I'll get asked if it has un-natural toxic chemical dyes and customers demanding to see the ingredient list, which fair if they have an allergy or dietary concern but they'll barely read it and still order the darn thing anyway 🤦🏻♀️🍦
@@dont8216 it's technically soft served dairy free frozen dessert (not sorbet tho) but that's a mouthful so just saying it's "ice cream" is shorter & easier to understand; plus the customers always call it ice cream anyway even though it really isn't but the customer is always right~ 😅😂
In fairness to people barely reading ingredients, if you have a restrictive diet you get pretty good at scanning ingredients for things you can't eat. You don't need to read or process any of the ingredients really, just quickly look for the shape of words that are a problem, double check if any are, and move on. Takes a few seconds
@purplejellytotPJT castoreum is very rarely used in food these days. Most flavourings that used to contain it have replaced it with synthetic vanellin or similar flavours.
This woman last week telling me she has a dairy allergy and NEEDS vegan but only takes heavy cream with her tea. I looked at every person at her table before reconfirming what she said out loud and she had the audacity to treat me like I was the uninformed one lmao
Haha - I was at a table once with a couple of women trying to "out allergy" each other. One claimed a peanut allergy. The other one quickly pointed out that she was allergic to ALL nuts, while smugly sipping a chai with almond milk...because she had a dairy allergy. LOL! I just laughed silently and stayed out of the line of fire.
That's funny, tho I have a friend with dairy allergy( they are allergic to a specific protein present in milk) and yeah they will still sometimes drink milk, tho it's a tricky one because the protein isn't in all milk derived products. Either way that's hilarious some people just perceive allergies as fashion
@@duqial Right? When food allergies suddenly became talking points, it was amazing how may adults magically developed a peanut allergy when they had eaten peanut butter their entire childhood. They weren't even aware of how serious a peanut allergy actually is.
@@duqialI don't know where you live, but where I live they developed a milk that actually removes that specific protein. The brand is known as A2 Milk.
That sucks. We had a discussion in my friend group. It was all about cereals, but specifically whether or not froot loops have different flavors for each color. We decided if they were not individually flavored, that food dye has a flavor itself, so they are different flavors even if it is not intentional.
@@s.f.nightingale1735 Considering M&Ms taste slightly different depending on which color you're eating (it's more prevalent in the peanut ones if you want to test it), yeah, I believe it. XD
Why is this? I used to work at a bakery, and a mother asked if any of the cupcakes had food color in them because her kids werent allowed to have any food coloring. She was nice about the whole thing, but it always made me wonder why
Most food coloring allowed here in the USA is incredibly toxic, and it can dramatically alter behavioral patterns in children, ESPECIALLY if they have conditions such as ADHD. It can be the difference between a normal happy child and hours of nonstop tantrums. If I eat artificial food coloring (or artificial flavoring of any kind), I develop an ophthalmic migraine wherein I lose my vision for about two hours. Because of this I have to bring a white cane wherever I go. I have accidentally consumed colors and paid the price quite a few times- caramel color is in EVERYTHING!!!!! So all of these reasons may be why she didn’t allow food colors for her children. I know for a fact that I will not allow food coloring for my children either!!
For me, I avoid red food coloring because it tends to give me a bad stomach ache. Some reds are made with a type of insect. I don't know which red in particular causes my stomach ache but red velvet cake tends to set it off. Red 40 has been shown to have a hyperactive increase in some people with ADHD.
@@VelvetTears216Food coloring in the USA is the same as food coloring in other countries. There have been no studies that prove that "US" food coloring is toxic.
@@jonquilgemstone Only because people don't know how to tell the difference between an actual scientific study and unsubstantiated but fervently asserted claims.
Technically it's Red 40, Blue 6, and Yellow 5. They're on the rainbow of cancer that was banned in the EU but good ol US of A is all about those cancer dyes! (I'm allergic to Red 40)
Red 40 (allura red), Brilliant blue (FCF), sunset yellow, tartrazine, and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch. Although with just the first three (red, blue, and yellow being primary colours) you can make almost any other colour using them. And they're basically all toxic 😅
I'm pretty sure shes just stupid and doesn't know these bonbons are blue because there's food coloring in it. Its when people are irrational and make shit up in their head. I once knew a "Vegan" girl at school that claimed she was strictly Vegan and acted like she knew everything. But she ate regular gummy bears and other regular fruit gummies all the time she was pretty embarrassed to find out that there was animal products in sweets 🤣
Bro I rember I was in a bakey and a women said I want for her birthday to have sparkle it has to be 50 feet and in my head I was like is she crazy so love this short
@GogiRegion The first recipe for red velvet cake that I ever saw was a chocolate cake with beetroot juice as the mixing agent. I still wondered how I would get beet juice. 🤔
Ngl the biggest pain in the butt is trying to figure out what something is cooked in like oil wise for the customer it’s understandable but at that point I would just cook at home if im asking that
haha i work at fast food, we've had people ask about the oil a few times. most of us dont actually kmow we just look at the nutrition book we have and then forget 😭
@Romans-un8nx I have friends with the same problem but opposite: they're allergic/sensitive to meat fats (especially pork), so have to request olive oil/vegetable oil or the like You wouldn't believe how many times a french fry is rendered dangerous by the fat vat 😅
It's probably just easier to really hammer it into a baker's head to NOT use food coloring, rather than giving a whole list of which specific dyes she's aware of that she wouldn't want in the food. Maybe she once told a different baker to avoid a certain food coloring, only for the baker to use that food coloring or different one with a similar effect. So, now she just makes it VERY clear to not use food coloring in the cake. Meanwhile, the candies are in a labelled bag so she could simply read which specific food colorings are in it.
I guess that's not impossible. I'm allergic to yellow 5 but not yellow 6 so I just avoid anything yellow, green, or orange I can't get an ingredients list for. But if you're going to walk into a bakery and ask for a cake without any dyes then it *might* be a good idea to not let the kid eat dyed candy in the store so they'll take you more seriously.
@@Cheezitnator You can be allergic to some dyes and not others. How is it picky to not want to have an allergic reaction? My brother can’t have certain red and yellow dyes for some reason, so we just ignore them all when buying for him 🤷
A year ago, my theme and my birthday cake were almost completely black The food colouring was so intense that our teeth would get black We ALL played with it and even took a picture smiling wide😂😂😂 best moment ever
Actually, some food colorings are legit dangerous. Like, they have immediate impacts on behaviors. A common example is Red 40 triggering intense tantrums in people with anxiety and ADHD. The bonbons were blue, and they're in a labelled bag so she could have checked which dyes specifically are in them. Meanwhile, she probably finds it easier to say "absolutely no food colorings, whatsoever" to bakers just to make sure they really don't put anything in there, rather than trying to say "Oh, you can use food coloring as long as it's not "
There are some non natural food colorings that can act as neurotoxins it’s why they are banned in some European countries. I used to be sensitive to it as a kid and I still try to stay away from it as much as possible went f*cking Crazy cuz I ate a red heart gummie once as a kid I tore up my whole house my mom was so scared, she tells me I’d never acted like that before. It makes my anxiety and adhd worse so basically my little kid brain didn’t know where to put all that crazy energy and anxiety so it was expressed through rage and destruction, but now as a much older person who knows how to handle myself and my mind it just terns into nervous energy and then I just feel like poo
LOL, what food color 'can act as a neurotoxin'? Pretty sure those wouldn't be used anymore, just like we don't use CFCs. Also it was waaay more likely that your 'little kid brain' couldn't cope with the energy from the *sugar* in candy, not the red dye, lol.
I had a friend who would go on and on about how he couldn't eat Chinese food because of the MSG, it gave him a headache and messed with his vision. He would then sit down and eat, by himself, an entire family sized bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. I don't know if you have those in Ireland, but the fourth or fifth ingredient is MSG, and a family sized bag of crisps is meant to be consumed by a family, or large group of people. Mysteriously, he got no headache and no blurry vision. He did spend a really, really long time in the bathroom, though.
When I was little I used to be allergic to food colorants. It showed as an annoying itchy rash in my legs and arms, it gets worse if you scratched it. Anyways I avoided foods with HEAVY amount of colorant but honestly most foods in the 90s had artificial colors so most foods were fine, but stuff like soda and candy got me flared up like a christmas tree. But other than a itchy rash is pretty safe to have an allergy like that tbh.
Recently in lndia achild died right after her 10th birthday after eating cake which was ordered from a food app named zomata. It is believed that the cream had caused food poisoning
One of the fun things I learned while reading old cooking almanacs and cookbooks is that you can make a ton of natural food color dyes at home with various veggies, fruits, and edible flowers. One of the hardest colors to make is blue, though, as it does not easily appear in nature. (You can get a blue tea and use it to dye things, but it's very faint) Also, the vibrancy of colors varies, and they are often less heat stable than artificial colors. They are fun to make though!
E133, or Briljant blue FCF (blue 1), is the most commonly used blue food colouring there is. Most likely the one in the bonbons. It's synthetic and generally considered non-toxic
While working at McD, the most common "allergy" was pickels, yet they still wanted the BigMac sauce in the BigMac (which also contains pickels). Basically, we concluded that most food "allergies" are just preferences, but the customers are looking for an excuse so as to not look like spoiled children.
lol I worked at a Brazilian steakhouse, had this lady that said her son is allergic to gluten I was like oh ok I’d let you know everything that is gluten free Then I see she accepts a chicken leg from a co worker for her son. I said ma’am that’s made with beer in the seasoning! She was like oh it’s ok! I didn’t bother to tell her that beer has gluten
The way that she is on the fence resonates with me so much. My zodiac sign is libra, and I am so indecisive when making decision😂. Such a lovely dress!
Synthetic food coloring does have long term studies showing some poor health effects especially in children. There are natural food coloring that is.. well natural.
