Are You Ready for Brown Skittles?

Unless you make a habit of closely reading nutrition labels—or watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s YouTube channel—you might not realize just how much tartrazine you’re ingesting. Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, is fixated with the chemical, otherwise known as Yellow 5. Many Americans are unknowingly eating this and other “poisons,” he warned in a YouTube video posted last fall. The lemon-yellow hue tints both junk food such as Skittles and Mountain Dew; it’s also in chicken bouillon, pancake mix, and pickles. In Europe, products containing Yellow 5 are branded with a label warning that it “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.” But for two decades, the FDA has declined to ban the dye, citing inconclusive evidence.

Today, the FDA announced that it will move to rid the food supply of Yello...
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