Toaster pastries (get the organic ones from Nature's Path. They're awesome!).
Lots of our favorite foods, foods that we have sentimental and nostalgic feelings over, sadly have these dyes in them.
(Ps. sorry about the headline image if it tempts you to get a bowl of that cereal that-shall-not-be-named)
And with RFK Jr coming in January to kick the FDA into shape, to ban harmful chemicals, it looks like they're trying to get an early start.
So they're deciding if they want to ban Red 3, a popular food dye.
Is this to try to get on his and the public's good side before they're exposed?
The Food and Drug Administration will decide on a ban of certain food dyes in the coming weeks after receiving a petition to review the safety of Red 3, NBC News reports.
"With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we're hopeful that in the next few weeks we'll be acting on that petition," Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.
According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 -- which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more -- in food and drugs "multiple times" since it was first approved in 1969, but the petition has requested for the additive to be reviewed once more.
Thomas Galligan, who works at the Center for Science in the Public Interest as a principal scientist for food additives and supplements, echoed a similar sentiment.
"These food dyes only serve one function in food, to make them look pretty so you and I want to buy it, it's a marketing tool," he told NBC.
Red 3, however, is banned in other countries and in the state of California.
Some studies have shown the potential harms posed by food dyes, such as ill effects on gut health and behavioral issues. Researchers have also found evidence that Red 3 causes cancer in animals, per NBC News.
A step in the right direction.
Don't worry. RFK Jr will make them run the rest of the way and ban all their poisons.
I'll be honest, I'm going to miss those brightly colored cereals that have a link to my childhood.
Maybe they'll figure out how to create that look from natural organic sources.
Are you a fan of overpriced $100 boxes of macaron cookies?
Pay all that money to just get chemicals.
At least if you pay more for organic food, you're actually getting something healthy.
Some other foods sold in America that are banned in Europe:
A lot of us have known about this for years, but thanks to social media, word is spreading about this subject.
RFK, Jr. Exposes Red Dye 40 -- TUMOR SUPPRESSION FAILURE!