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Dyes

Posted : 10/26/2006 10:53:03 AM

This morning as i walked by my candy bowl, I snagged a couple of pieces of candy corn ---I know not fit for consumption in the middle of the morning--and a thought struck me. There is always a lot of talk about the dyes used in dog foods and i am wondering is it the same dye as used in like candy corn, Fruitty Pebbles and Froot Loops cereals, gummy bears, M&Ms, etc? I don't think I have ever seen where it is the same or different dyes. Does anyone know the answer/

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 10/26/2006 1:13:26 PM

I don't know, either. But I'd hate to admit how many times this month I've had a handful of candy corn for breakfast.[]

Joyce

sandra_slayton

Posted : 10/26/2006 1:17:12 PM

I did eat a dish of my rice pudding and a cup of French Vanilla coffee for breakfast. Rice pudding for breakfast

you say. Well son pointed out it is rice, milk, eggs, raisins and very little sugar, so would be as good, if not better for me than eating a bowl of rice krispies. There is only 1/3 cup of sugar to 2 cups of milk, 2 eggs, and all that rice (and of course vanilla, a tad of salt and nutmeg, and raisins.) But i snagged the candy corn later in the morning.

brookcove

Posted : 10/26/2006 2:10:07 PM

Same dyes. FD&C red, etc. My failing is "Nerds" and certain colors give me the "hurry up and get theres". I don't have to eat them day in and day for every single meal over the course of years, however. I try to remember that when comparing a kibble to our own food.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 10/26/2006 9:28:08 PM

After eating those candy corns and thinking how neat they color them is when I struck me about if it was the same dyes used in dog food. I had never really thought about dyes in our food until today and as I sat thinking I was amazed at how many things do have dye in them. Thanks.

Edie

Posted : 10/26/2006 10:50:12 PM

I was amazed at how many things do have dye in them.

Most of ours and our dogs food would be a mucky grey colour without those dyes.

I have heard beneful and all the other colored foods would be a yuk grey color without the added colours and customerts wouldnt buy it,which makes me wonder why the healthy foods dont have dyes added and they are a nice,normal brown shade.Why dont they have to add colors??

sandra_slayton

Posted : 10/26/2006 11:49:14 PM

Most of ours and our dogs food would be a mucky grey colour without those

Heck, that might be a good way for make us all stay skinny--food so unappetizing to the eye. LOL[

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Luvntzus

Posted : 10/27/2006 7:27:55 AM

It's a little different though because most people don't eat candy corns, nerds, m&m's etc. for every meal. A dog that is being fed Beneful for every meal of every single day for years is consuming a lot more of those dyes.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 10/27/2006 9:34:15 AM

I wasn't comparing human and dog foods as to amount of dye each eats, just wondering if the same dye was used in both. I didn't know if the same dye or different ones were used.

Anymore i am not sure what any of us are really eating after listening to my hubby talk about some the chemicals he delivers to places that make food. i found out not long ago that bananas have a gas added to them to ripen them. just nevet know what we are getting that we are not informed of.

papillon806

Posted : 10/27/2006 9:53:27 AM

ORIGINAL: Luvntzus

It's a little different though because most people don't eat candy corns, nerds, m&m's etc. for every meal. A dog that is being fed Beneful for every meal of every single day for years is consuming a lot more of those dyes.

That is a good point

glenmar

Posted : 10/27/2006 9:59:21 AM

Much of the produce that comes to my part of the country, especially in the winter is gassed, Sandra. Tomatoes are called gas greens...picked green, shipped and then gassed to ripen them. And people wonder WHY I pick all my green ones, wrap them in newspaper and keep them cool so that they will ripen on their own throughout the winter............

sandra_slayton

Posted : 10/27/2006 10:21:29 AM

GEEEZZZZ I wonder what kind of gas they use? I didn't know about the other produce, just the bananas. We also use to wrap tomatoes in news psper and put them in the "canned goods closet" on our back porch.. We hung onion by tying them with their green stems to chicken wire stretched across the top of building out behind our house that was sort of a 2ed barn. We also spread our potatoes over sand in that same buidling and they would last til the next crop.

brookcove

Posted : 10/27/2006 10:38:21 AM

It's the same gas that rotting fruit gives off. I forget what it's called. You can do the same thing by picking green tomatoes, splitting an apple, then setting the apple in a brown bag with the tomatoes. The tomatoes will be ripe within a few days. I looked it up - it's ethylene. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene Note that it's not new - the Egyptians knew about this and gassed figs to ripen them.