Read the following article: Your Colorful Food
Conduct some research on food dyes and colorants using the website below to get you started:
Food and Drug Association (FDA). (2013, December 7). How safe are color additives? Retrieved from https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048951.htm
After reading the article and conducting your research, address the following questions:
- What are the advantages of using synthetic food dyes rather than natural ones?
- What is the difference between a natural food coloring and natural-identical colors?
- What are the most common food additives?
- What are some of risks of synthetic and natural food dyes and what are some of the benefits?
- Locate a boxed, frozen, or canned food. What are the preservatives? What antioxidants are added? Are these substances from natural sources or synthesized? Simply take a container and list all the ingredients present. These substances can then be identified in terms of chemical composition and function.
- Use this website to get you started:https://sci-toys.com/ingredients/ingredients.html