Article: A study in color.(food colorings)(Will Goldfarb, a successful pastry chef)(recipes to make carbonated drinks)(Recipe)

The International Food Information Council, a media relations organization that represents the interests of the processed foods industry, often with the express cooperation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), defines a color additive as 'any dye, pigment or substance which when added or applied to a food, drug or cosmetic, or to the human body, is capable (alone or through reactions with other substances) of importing color ... Without color additives, colas wouldn't be brown, margarine wouldn't be yellow and mint ice cream wouldn't be green."

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They're talking about the water-soluble dyes and fat-soluble lakes, like FD & C ...

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