Why The U.S. Government Decides The Color Of Our Food - Cheddar Explains 

Some cheeses are,but those in packs are def not

@@Paco1337 well thats not really real cheese anyway haha

I’ll have you know I have plucked fresh blocks of cheese from the cheese tree in my yard every summer and they are indeed bright orange.

I bet some people think the same of Trump

Lol, I'm from Asia and I think most cheeses are in milky white colour. I perceive darker coloured cheeses as "processed cheese". 😂

so true. its honestly heartbreaking

As a kid, the adults could never be trusted and I still don't trust them now.

@@wandererwest4832 Even as a child you never trusted the system lol smart cookie

Yeah.... I learned the hard way. A college friend was allergic to anything "red or orange" in the us due to food dye allergies.... That poor friend. Couldn't even eat strawberries due to chance of dye.

Every single food ended up being either a lie or poison or both

People are simply stupid.

The sign or label says color added with the farm raised salmon, at least in San Diego where I live.

I feel you, people be brainwashed

People are really close minded now

To a hungry brain, more color looks tasty off the bat that is unless you know the effects of dyes.

I think it's more like his older brother being an arse for eating things that aren't his.

i can taste the difference in dyed foods and non dyed foods

No you can't lol

@@baitpolice2487 Per the blue steak experiment, it's perfectly possible that he thinks he can because he is being lied to by his brain. Alternatively, he means food that are naturally a color versus those that are died that color (orange, salmon examples) and... given that the food are actually different in some ways, that is plausible.

@@justanoman6497Wow I've never heard of that experiment, very interesting, thank you for educating me :>

Yeah, they look nothing like that in Euro land. They have to be crunchy though

Right? It's scary.

IKR

If you see something neon yellow, it’s probably poisonous ☠️ 🤣

1980🇺🇸🎂

Green eggs and ham

It might help me lose weight.

Grey salmon... dude, no.

Use food coloring

Pink chicken is the best

WOW, that’s deep.

Must be nice to be able to afford that kind of food.

@@-8_8- he wrote that he's growing the food himself. Did you not read the comment before replying? Lol

@@turdburglar88 i think hes just frustrated, because in order to eat real food you have to have decent money

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@@habababa1312 only in America lol

I was thinking that too

I’m in America, and yes our pickles are dyed yellow and all of them are. Edit: Well there closer to greenish yellow sorry or a pale green

As a European, I picture pickles as either dark-green or olive green. Never knew they're dyed yellow in the US. But salmon is pink pretty much everywhere.

@@leaflet3507 no they aren't wtf.

@@leaflet3507 you can easily go to almost any super market in the US and find plenty of pickles that dont have dye in them and that arent yellow.

Yes. I understand when people don't feel like "pink" is a perfect description of the color (which is why people say things are "salmon" colored, it's its own color in a way), but never heard anyone say it looks orange. That's messed up.

@@1BeGe nah it totally looks orange

Atlantic salmon and Pacific salmon have different colors. They're not even the same genus. Also, the Atlantic salmon you're eating is farm-raised. as such, it's going to be given as his anthon in part to make up for the lack of the naturally occurring assesanthin which should be in its diet but isn't because it's farm-raised.

That's because salmon is pink/salmon coloured once cooked not smoked or raw.

@@charmedx3219 Well that's just wrong. I've taken salmon straight from the water, to the table and put it under the knife myself and it's definitely "salmon" colored meat.

The thing takes long to melt. Imagine how it is in your arteries. Heart healthy? Yeah right!

@@James_318 i think he meant manufacturers

Those "non perfect" foods are generally sorted out and used in processed or frozen foods. Take the oranges for example, if you are making orange juice you wouldn't care what color the peel was. Its usually only an issue when the food is displayed on a shelf and the consumer has to make a snap judgment on what to buy.

We do? 🤨

Thats why brands such as OddBox in the U.K. are so important!

What is this “we” it’s the people who sort the shit that think costumers won’t want it

I dont think they would. They are the iphone generation. Look at that fancy packaging. And the food dyes have zero health risk.

I think they would tell you this but I don't think they would actually purchase it over our current food. Not only is the youth super materialistic they also have had a mostly care free life in which bruised foods or mouldy cheese etc... are seen as harmful. The use of skip the dish and other apps with ridiculous costs show this imo. I'm 30 but I see people constantly buying name brand and using these apps. It amazes me because the same people (rightfully) complain about the cost of housing. Meanwhile here I am being frugal to offset it.

@@thebookwasbetter3650 O.M.G your so right

Lol not me. Depends of the food. Like I don’t think I would eat salmon if it weren’t pink

@@thebookwasbetter3650 they do have health risk! People are diagnosed to be allergic to food coloring.

You're from Italy and you've never seen orange cheese? They make some in England and France. The US just followed.

@@-8_8- No my friend, they do make a lot of cheese, but certainly not orange.

@@patrick594 they make Red Leicester in Leicestershire which has an orange appearance actually

@@patrick594 I was a cheese monger my dude. You're absolutely wrong on this. Your ignorance of your neighbors is showing. Because our favorite cheddars, all English, were using annatto, we added it to 2/3 of our Cheddar and 3/4 of our American. Mimolette was also popular here for a while, I think because a person of international note really liked it. That's the part about Americans that scares me. Lafayette or someone like that loved it and it so that dry bland cheese gained popularity. Because he was popular. Smh. What about Shropshire Blue? Devonshire red? Gloucester? Mimolette? Are they not orange enough? Do they not use enough annatto for you? Are they not old country enough? Annatto cropped up in 17th century Europe as a way to make the cheese look like the cows had access to meadow grass. It's literally just a food coloring. Before access to latin america, they had other methods to achieve the same thing. Otherwise as the availability of the right grasses waxes and wanes you get different color cheese, and if you've ever met anyone shopping for food, you know people will just not buy something if it's not "perfect." Blame england, blame France. The US just followed the old countries, as usual they followed the sketchy old country, but saying it's an American thing makes you look ignorant, because it's far from true. Why annatto at that time? Access to latin america. Where it's still used as "achiote." I don't find it flavors anything, most people say it just adds a warmer color, others say it has had health benefits like vitamin e and anti oxidants. Idk about all that. I do know that Mimolette is French and the others I listed are English.

@@-8_8- Lol dude the guy before you already mentioned orange cheese. Your entire comment is pointless

Nope that’s the only color our oranges have in the USA. You know how stupid kids would look at you in the USA if you said oranges aren’t organge. It’s like a normalized thing here almost like the lgbtq things

Wild salmon get the natural pink colour from their diet. Farmed salmon is another thing

Tuna isn't gray, it has very deep red color. Acipenser, beluga, sterlet have slightly pinkish color.

really? I've always associated prawns as orange, though grey does exist too but not as commonly found.

many shrimp species have different colour when they are raw. there are orange, red, and some are even slightly blue! same goes for lobster. trouts are also orange/pink. go to a real seafood market insteae of supermarkets to buy stuff, you will find so many more interesting things to eat.

Only the large farmed shrimp are grey to my knowledge, most smaller varieties have color

Which is funny, because I personally think green apples look much more appetizing than red ones, lol.

@@ThePC007 I like the yellow ones and the brown ones

@@primo4915 What?

@GHOZTLY THE GOD OF SUFFERING bruh I was talking about apples too, we have brown apples in Portugal

@i am sunbody that's dope

Me when I lie

@@blahbl1090 I'm Canadian and usually can't stand US candy that is a version of our own. Even our Rockets (your Smarties) taste significantly different. You can taste a muted artificial "flat" flavour in majority of American candy aftertaste. That's the dye. M&Ms in Canada have a subtly different flavour then the USA, and there is a reason people go for our version of Smarties, you can't taste the dyes despite more candy-chocolate crunch over M&Ms. Eat the red ones last. Another thing is that we actually use sugar for a lot of our sweets, even if it is refined, over HF Corn Syrup. Our pop/soda tastes different than yours, including Coca Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, and majority of Root Beers. Especially A&W Root Beer in Canada, shit hits WAY different than the states.

Right like if steak was naturally blue i don’t think anyone would have puked lol It’s insane how they twist things to create a “need” that creates a “job” and therefore a “profit”. That’s really all it is.

Once u take the blindfold off and u learn that everything we were taught and brainwashed to believe is an illusion…. Life becoming suicidally depressing

I agree with you! Also, notice that people stopped buying natural foods because they had become more expensive, preventing consumers from giving more of their money to the government. In order to encourage US citizens to spend their money, the government created artificial alternatives meant to mimic the appearance of the natural foods we once knew. Over time, younger generations were only exposed to artificial foods, thus losing their knowledge of how natural foods change in certain temperatures and environments. Rather than tell us an Orange is green, they dye the oranges all year round. The salmon is actually pink in nature, only grey in farms because the salmon is not on a natural diet.

@@sevenrue4754 No, it simply becomes anger. Wake up.

Yeah so they go and die the meat the most outrageous color they can in the fries like come on man dye the steak blue in the fries f****** green like that's even anywhere near realistic for real what a what a false test that was I mean seriously I mean look at the picture of the apples like I've seen fresh red apples they're not seriously that bad they're like they have yellowing and green on them and some red this is just a lie for our government to put f****** poisonous chemicals in our body and control the population cuz those chemicals alter your mood it's just all b******* man so is this f****** video like I've ate fresh salmon and it's honestly not even that much worse than what fresh salmon is pink but it's not pink like that it's just a little darker like a little bit more grayish tone to it like this this is all b******* for our government to do whatever the f*** they want

And as you see, that has always been the case.

@@elenapopovic2527 in America or world?

@@usedtoberyanpoopnownormal8822 I would say world, but I don't know enough about the world to definitively make that statement.

@@elenapopovic2527 oh ok

My impression is that corporations in America are much better at brainwashing consumers into wanting crappy stuff than elsewhere in the world. Not just regarding food products.

Wdym man made, like selective breeding?

In India, it's orange too.

I am looking for the days that we see right is right, and all of our foods are not processed. Oh, wait, that is my eutopian, idealistic, ever hopeful desires coming to the surface.

In Brazil, they're mostly green in fact. I had never seen an orange orange before going to Canada.

@@sohopedeco Is that so! How very interesting. I'm currently based in Buenos Aires, and all the oranges at the local market come from the north. Northeastern producers from misiones and corrientes, close to the border with Brazil, account for the largest share of that market (no green ripe oranges there) So I wonder: perhaps they are different varieties altogether? Anyways thanks for the input

I imagine that oranges are machine picked and some percentage are partially orange or green which wouldn't make the grocery shelves but by dying those you could deliver to shops for higher price instead of processing them for juice.

I totaly agree

I have a built-in distaste for artificially dyed food... pure vomitous.

Just like all pickles

@@michaelkelly7379 Most people I know that hate pickles have only ever had the ones that are over-sweetened and full of dye. The others just never realized that some of the food they already liked were pickled.

Here in europe there are only green ones, how the hell did americans come up with yellow😂

I am also from the Caribbean and where I’m from oranges are yellow

I am from Pakistan and we have orange 🍊 s . I have seen them on trees

And the sweet potatoes Americans eat are not the same we eat in the Caribbean

As someone from Spain, our oranges are orange. And I've seen them from the tree. Some are even red

In ivory Coast its the same. Very green lol

Because it’s useless information. Schools are training you for jobs not life.

@@jayus2033My school didn't train me for a job. My college and job did.

@@TDBanimefan The schedule gets you used to a job schedule though, preparing you for a 9 to 5.

And what use will this be

@@shuandoyle7871 well considering half the shit we learn in school is useless i think this wouldve been ok to fit in a social studies class somewhere im not gunna lie tho it is more of a fun fact buts it is always good to know more about the world

Welcome the party, pal.

Sounds like a line from the Simpsons

Roll that into a joint and smoke it.

There's a reason there are so many food allergies amongst people in the US. I never heard about food allergies before I saw them on US TV shows. The fact is that long term exposure to chemicals actually makes you more reactive to said chemicals.

@@fangdog29 chronic vs acute : chronic > acute

Do you really think they they care!!!

@@fangdog29 Per natural selection, when you are able to mitigate the *effect* but not the solve the cause of a condition, it will just become more common over time--because those who would have died does not. I feel at least part of the reason why allergy is so common in the US is because it is doing a pretty good job of handling it. In a lot of parts of the world, having an allergy to a common food item might still just be a death sentence or at least cause severe damage that diminishes the prospect of being eligible for marriage and thus reproduce.

@@justanoman6497 having a nut allergy is not a good thing by any measure. There is a reason nuts have featured extensively in human nutrition - they are energy, and filled with good fats that support health. The loss of gut biome diversity in the US is a well recorded phenomenon. I suggest you look it up.

Hilarious

bahahhahahahahahahahaha, same here

lmaooooooooooooo

😆

For real? Like what colors were they exactly?

@@MicahPotts green yellow ect

@@ronidude gotcha, thanks! 😊

I read that as "Having pickled oranges" in the middle of the pickle dye part of the video in my defense. I thought eww, grody.

Sigh

Natural color

OMG this wins

Vermont's Cheddar is Authentic & Naturally Colored by the fact that it's a milk product. It varies with the seasons.

@@BJCMXY But it shouldn't be filled with annato. *orange* is not a colour for cheddar.

Lol

I live in the tropics and the only fully yellow/orange oranges I've seen are imported ones at the supermarket. The local variety is always green or green and yellow gradient. Healthier, fresher and still very delicious

I believe there’s something else going on here, like variety or what the other guy said soil/climate conditions. The color orange only got named hundreds of years ago because oranges the fruit got so popular they finally considered orange a legit color. So there have been orange, oranges for a long ass time

Most of the oranges grown in the US ( florida, alabama etc ) are naturally orange. This might be why we prefer the orange coloration.

Same in the US

wow, i guess i have been eating regular bread this whole time and not wheat, can't really eat anything that is not dyed or chemicaled in the US

@@Reioloshi You can, you just might not like it and it will be more expensive. I think Ezekiel bread is probably the healthiest whole grain bread you can find.

What does "not 100% wheat" even mean? You know that maida and aata are both made from wheat no? It's just maida is finely grinded

@@ivamanral989 100% whole wheat, I meant. Now, you might say "maida and atta are almost the same!" So try making bread with whole wheat flour at home and you will see the difference.

My obstetrician is going back to ghana after doing my c section next week. I wish she could bring me a green orange.

Depending on what food you eat, of course.

Yes African orange is green because it’s non GMO

You do realize that oranges aren’t dyed orange?

It won’t kill you, plus, you’re the one responsible for managing your own health.

They're actually my favourite

do they give you absorption and regeneration when you eat them?

@@liemduongthanh8386 😂

On the far right, I think it's a Granny Smith actually. One of my favorites. (Along with Gala & Honeycrisp) I'm not a fan of red delicious _at all_

That was the entire point of the graphic. The standard for "fancy" has not kept up with apple varieties. Except that it isn't true. If you actually look up the definition at the USDA website, it says nothing about red coloring. It just says that they should not be discolored for the variety of apple. Being too green could get a Red Delicious downgraded.

Its salmon pink

No they're blue

Salmon is salmon

Salmon is its own colour between orange and pink

@@murder1625 nah they are purple

Tbf Fanta in the UK tastes like orange flavoured fizzy water

Its still dyed

the video said its vegetable oil now

@@user-fj4en7cq8d 'vegetable oil' is a marketing term. Vegetables generally don't contain oil. They mostly use industrially processed seed and bean oils. Not good for you

did you watch the whole video or nah

@@cassieoz1702 nut oils are not too bad for you. like peanut oil is fine, it's in peanut butter

What country?

@@nonyabusiness7 malaysia?

It really does boggle my mind that people scream about "m-muh corrupt g-government!" when ALLLLL of this stuff is freely and easily accessible to read. Literally just a case of people not turning over a box of food and taking 5 minutes to educate themselves.

@@Professor_Utonium_ I think it's the fact that the government does not care about our well being. That we have to make sure our food that is sold in friendly grocery stores doesn't contain cancer #5. Or why not blame the producers of the food, instead of people who thought it was safe, because why would it be acceptable to feed people poison?

So read the label and get what? All that crap is pretty much in everything sold in the USA no matter what brand you look at lol... And I believe if an ingredient is under a certain amount it didn't even have to be listed on the label

Spoiler: every "natural" food indeed has dozens of chemicals... because everything is a chemical

Wtf peanuts are you buying? Mine literally have one ingredient and yes, they're from a major chain store.

Peanuts are not actually nuts

@@Sammysapphira that's now what they mean genius. Wow, what a useless piece of information.

You're thinking of people who are completely color blind. Most people are color blind can still see some colors or most colors but see some of them improperly.

@@ronmaximilian6953 shut up smart arse

@@ronmaximilian6953 you unfunnied the joke

Apologies for educating people on a channel dedicated to bits of education

@Eti Bronx most colorblind people are red green blind. About 8% of men and under 1% of women are color blind

Salva, the green ones are proper natural. i lived inn Kenia for 2 years , oranges were green . only clementines were orange. green oranges were sweetr. so yeah you've been eating real natural food .

yeah I think for the most part they are a bit more conservative in the EU when it comes to food coloring/dying and I'm all for that

They don't have actually edible pickled cucumbers at all.

@@ayomlem EU has stricter regulations.

Yes in Europe they are not dyed and it's perfectly fine...

@@Breakfast_of_Champions we do have plenty of edible pickle

The comment section also seems to disagree with that part of the video. To me this lends support to your explanation. On top of that, I have had my fair share of oranges in the southern US and all were bright orange. About 1/15 were firm, tart, and semisweet but I couldn't tell they were underripe until I peeled them.

Dyeing

Exactly i dont get it every orange tree I’ve seen had orange oranges

@@JaKingScomez in Brazil we have the green and the yellowish ones. Orange oranges are imported

@@joiceraiana and those oranges are fully ripe?

@@JaKingScomez yes, the "laranja pera" it never changes color it's always green, quite dark shade too, it's sweet tart. And some are a mix of green and light yellow, that one, that I don't know the name, it's a little bit sweeter, but it's color still mostly green even when ripe.

Im thinking its a different variety of "oranges".

You realize the "grey" salmon was done in post..... right?

@@jimurrata6785 You know that if they weren't fed astaxanthin they'd be grey, right? It's not that dark grey, but still not pink.

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Yes, absolutely! I just said that in another reply. But go back and look at the split screen and you'll see what I'm saying.

As an Italian, I can tell you that mozzarella is white lol

@@giulia2458 yeah maby they 're using weird milk in the us who knows? But it may not even taste like real mozzarella but like the weird cheese there is on industrial pizzas

Grow thyself to know thyself

Did you really think you could buy dark red apples and tomatoes and strawberries 12 months a year without them painting the fruit??

@@WKRP187 I honestly never thought about that

@@WKRP187 lol great point!!

non-toxic dye, you can literally eat it and not get poisoned. Fun for Dr Seuss kids. Never been poisoned in my life when I ate colored food.

Yeah because McDonald’s and other fast food doesn’t exist in Europe right. If there’s one place you know what your getting gs it’s McDonald’s

You do realize Europe food industry does not revolve around Mcdonald and fast food only? At least our supermarket do not sell yellow bright pickles and other dyed food

@@pawmeh7284 our food industry doesn’t involve around McDonald’s ethier? I have no idea where you came from or what your talking about and I’ve never bought the yellow pickles here in the usa we have something called options

I never said anything along the lines of "unlike usa" because that wasn't the intention of my comment The pickle thing was an example,,,

@@pawmeh7284 why are you quoting me on something I never said I never said “unlike the usa” can you read. Also the pickle was a bad example because like I said in the usa we have choices, I can’t speak for Europe because I never been there but I do know there’s fast food over there that’s a common fact, and judging from your dumb comments you never been to the usa of all u see if yellow pickles and think our food industry revolves around fast food and dyed food, when there’s plenty of organic food places like I said there’s choices here. Sooo bad example NEXT

Stop eating beef, beef is a red meat which as heme naturally bad for blood and gut

The government never said that salmon is pink. People are dumb and bought died salmon.

@@galaxywolf3192 Uhm no. Salmon flesh has always been red. Only the recent development with farmed salmon would have resulted in grey/white salmon because they don't get to eat the algae and plankton that causes the flesh of wild salmon to be red. So they add the same class of chemical, just from a different source.

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m damn finally a smart person in the comments

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m and the government played what role in dictating salmon color?

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m I watched a program about the difference between farmed salmon and wild salmon . There is a lot of difference , farmed salmon need to be fed 'antibiotics' because of ticks or lice they gather with not being in flowing water .. and also feeding the fish a different food in captivity that a salmon won't find in flowing water .

Same with the gray pickles. The natural color is a brownish green, not gray.

It's not for some devious reason: they probably just can't get "undyed" salmon. Maybe a research lab would have some, but even then most of them are fed a "wild" diet or the industry standard diet (with astaxanthin).

@@johnstonefield1935 I mean it is though. It wouldn’t actually be unnaturally grey looking like that. They’re trying to get your attention by misrepresenting it. They have no idea what it would actually look like so they choose an extreme unnatural looking color to get more views.

Source?

@@gktjkytjktyjtyjtyjkf Is it unnaturally grey? I've never seen consumer grade undyed fish as thick as we get salmon fillets. The closest I can think of are shark steaks (still dyed by diet) which can appear to be brown/grey even before the factory processing, factory freezing, and store thawing salmon goes through? You're probably more right though, they probably just replaced all the red/pink with grey and took judicious liberty with guessing how dark it would be. As opposed to just making it look similar to other translucent/light grey fish. Edit: They've also chosen the brightest colored salmon I've ever seen in my life for their "normal" examples.

And the War of Captain Jenkin’s Ear

Isn't the Cola wars up there too? Since it led to New Coke and the dumping of cola

He said it tastes like butter too ? I don't mean to be a stereotype, but I'm French and offended.

Don't forget the Cod War.

Chicken war.

Oh wow they colored your grass too?

Sucks to suck. complain to the government or grow your own crops

I wouldn’t be mad if synthetic food colouring was banned all together. I’m all for it.

Bruh just go to kfc everyday for a week.

same but i have do deal with it as the meds i take have it i try to avoid it but it almost impossible for me in less i want to pay like 300 a month out of pocket for an alternative

We have orange oranges in India .... They ripe and become orange