Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: This is not a joke: there are ground up red beetles being used right now as a food coloring ingredient in yogurt, ice cream, juice drinks and many other grocery products. The ingredient is called "carmine."
Carmine is literally made from dried, ground-up red beetles, and its coloring (bright red) is used in yogurt, juice drinks, candies, and a long list of other products, including many "natural" products.
It's not that these red beetles are dangerous. Except for a few individuals who suffer severe allergic reactions to the beetles, most people do just fine eating carmine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it's actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There are also technical reasons why carmine is a useful food coloring. If you're curious about what the food manufacturers say about carmine, read: http://www.foodproductdesign.com/archive/1998/0398AP.html
HOW IS CARMINE MADE / WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
Most carmine used in the United States is imported from Peru and the Canary Islands. They are harvested as follows (Quoted from: www2.labs.agilent.com/botany/cacti_etc/html/news7.html):
"The insects are carefully brushed from the cacti... and placed into bags. |
| Plus, we all know just how powerful grape skins are at lowering LDL cholesterol and promoting cardiovascular health. A food coloring ingredient made from grape skins would, if widely consumed, help protect the health of the public. It would probably give you all the health benefits of drinking wine, but without the alcohol.
You can learn more at http://www.cwine.com/ournews/MegaNatural.htm
WHAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE WITH CARMINE?
Like most consumers, you've probably been eating ground-up red beetles for years. You just didn't know it. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It can be used in small amounts to make yellow food coloring. The fresh leaves can also be used as a flavoring.
Other Uses
In Asia turmeric is sometimes an ingredient in cosmetics. An extract from the leaf is used in sunscreens. In northern Indian traditional wedding ceremonies, turmeric is applied to the bride and groom to offer protection from "the evil eye." In Nepal, traditionally shepherds anoint their "third eye" (in the center of the forehead) with a turmeric paste before going out to work in the high mountains to bestow protection, blessings, and success. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Annatto seed paste produced in South America is exported to North America and Europe, where it is used as a food coloring for margarine, cheese, microwave popcorn, and other yellow or orange foodstuffs. Many times, this natural food coloring replaces the very expensive saffron in recipes and dishes around the world. Annatto paste is also used as a natural dye for cloth and wool and is sometimes employed in the paint, varnish, lacquer, cosmetic, and soap industries. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers, processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances. Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Countless millions of children have died over the years from cancers stemming from chemical food additives like sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils and petrochemical food coloring, yet you don't see anybody jumping up and down to save those kids. But when five people croak from eating raw almonds, they treat it like it's a national emergency. Maybe terrorists are now using salmonella as a biological weapon...
But let's get real here: Eating food comes with some risk. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, "Insect-based red food coloring" on the label, so instead, they just call it "carmine."
Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too, but it's actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. Lots of ingredients contain hidden MSG, and I've written extensively about them on this site. Virtually all hydrolyzed or autolyzed ingredients contain some amount of hidden MSG. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Talk to any mother who's given her kid sugar or food coloring and noticed hyperactivity," observes pediatric allergist Doris Rapp, M.D., who simply can't fathom why the medical community is so reluctant to accept the idea that sweets could make sweet kids outrageously rambunctious, contrary, and rowdy. celebrity fights sugar shdck!
"Sugar is the devil. Sugar is kiddie cocaine. Watch kids at a birthday party. The girls are crying and the boys are turning something into swords."
—Marilu Henner, actress and author of Healthy Kids
"How can doctors deny it? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They're made with hydrogenated soybean oil, artificial avocado flavoring, monosodium glutamate and green food coloring made from petrochemicals. Yumm! It's the kind of diet that makes a kid lose his mind, pick up an old refurbished AK-47 brought home by a U.S. soldier from Iraq, lock and load a double-pack of 30-round ammo magazines, and go to town unloading bullets on his classmates. This is no exaggeration: Chemicals in food cause violent behavior in young men. And guess what we're feeding the little rascals in our public school lunch programs? |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Unless (for some strange reason) you ingested massive amounts of food coloring, yellow stool is not normal. If your stool is pale or yellow, your large intestine, liver, small intestine, or stomach may be affected by a serious condition or disease.
Additional Features of Unhealthy Stool
If bowel movements are:
It may be due to...
Dark black and sticky
(Seek immediate medical attention! |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| The flowers can be used as a food coloring and are sometimes used as a cheaper substitute or adulterant for saffron. The Hopi Indians, for example, use it to color bread.
Other Uses
Safflower can be used as a dye; it has been used to redden cosmetics such as rouge and to make a yellow and red dye for fabric. Egyptians often colored linens used to wrap mummies with safflower. The dried flowers are sometimes included in potpourri.
The oil extracted from the seeds is used for massage and is also an ingredient in hair-growth preparations in Asia. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Virtually ALL of the Halloween candy being given away to children on this bizarre holiday is made of these three primary ingredients:
SUGAR (sucrose, corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup)
COLOR (chemical food coloring additives, including the ones that cause ADHD)
FLAVOR (artificial chemical flavors)
Slap a blob of this nutritious mixture into a plastic wrapper, stamp a fun-looking logo on the outside, and you've got candy!
If you want to manufacture a different kind of candy, simply change the chemicals you're using to have a "bubble gum" flavor or a "tangy" color. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 By "elemental" I mean that you should eat foods without additives like food coloring or stabilizers. In fact, the only additives allowed are Nutrasweet or Splenda to substitute for whole sugar.
And you'll have to stay away from carbs altogether. I don't think it essential to have a workbook with a list of the carbohydrate counts in each food. A simpler way to avoid high-carb foods is to remember which general categories you should avoid completely. Stop consuming anything with alcohol in it (wine, beer, or liquor) and stop eating starchy foods like rice, potatoes, corn, bread, or cake. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 This sample of 1873 children revealed that artificial food coloring and benzoate preservatives adversely affect the behavior of 3 year olds according to parent reports but not a simple clinic assessment.
EFA Supplementation in Children with Inattention, Hyperactivity, and Other Disruptive Behaviors. Stevens L,; Zhang W; et al. Lipids, 2003 October, 38(10):1007-1021.
This pilot study suggests that EFA supplements may be beneficial in children with behavioral disorders.
Does Zinc Moderate Essential Fatty Acid and Amphetamine Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder? |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Dip a cotton swab into blue food coloring and coat the front of your tongue with the dye. Move your tongue around to spread the dye. Using a magnifying glass, count the blue-dyed taste buds in an area the size of a paper punch hole. If there are more than 20, you're a supertaster. If there are 4 to 6, you're a nontaster. Anything in between means you're just plain normal.
Because supertasters tend to shun strong-tasting foods, such as Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, they may lack adequate amounts of antioxidants and other important nutrients found in these vegetables. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Japan is really horseradish with green food coloring added to it? Real wasabi is one of the rarest, most difficult and expensive vegetables to grow in the world and is in limited supply. But the good news is, though entirely different plants, horseradish is much easier to find and shares many of wasabi's healthy characteristics.
What's the Story?
HORSERADISH: The English name "horseradish" was first thought to be a bungled twist on the German word meerrettich, interpreted as mare (female horse) radish (meaning root). |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Edible Uses
Saffron is used as a culinary spice and food coloring. It is the world's most expensive spice, and among the most labor-intensive to produce. At least sixty thousand stigmas are required to yield just 1 pound of saffron.
Other Uses
Saffron is valued as an important dye plant; the stigmas yield a yellow dye and the petals a blue or green dye. Crocin, the constituent that yields the coloring, is so potent that only 1 gram of it can color 100 liters of water. Saffron is also sometimes used in perfumery. In Ayurvedic medicine, saffron is used to enhance love and spirituality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Hydrogenated oils, aspartame, petroleum-derived food coloring chemicals and cancer-causing preservative chemicals all remain legal as well.
Clearly, the goal of so-called "food safety" initiatives have nothing to do with actually protecting consumers, but a whole lot to do with meeting the interests of agricultural companies and junk food manufacturers. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The berries are used by the food industry to produce red food coloring.
Storage: The drag should be stored in paper or sacks made from cloth.
LITERATURE
Aron GM, Irvin JD, (1980) Antinricrob Agents Chem 17:1032.
Kang SS, Woo WS, Triterpenes from the berries of Phytolacca americana. In: JNP 43(4):510-513. 1980.
Lewis WH, (1979) J Am Med Ass 242(25):2759 cit: CA 93:217921 f. 1979.
MecPherson A, In: Toxic Plants, Ed. AD Kinghorn, Columbia Press 1979.
Shin KH et al, (1979) Soul Taehakkyo Saengyak Opjukjip 18: 90.
Sick WW, Shin KH, (1976) Yakhak Hoe Chi 20(3): 149.
Sick WW et al. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Rapp says, "your child should eat only organically grown food because it is less contaminated with pesticides, food coloring or other chemical additives that may be causing adverse reactions. However, in some places, it remains difficult—and expensive—to buy foods uncontaminated by chemicals. I encourage people to grow their own vegetables so that they will have their own source in the winter and one which they know does not contain any chemicals. |
| These included not only food but also the food coloring and additives. Also, pesticides in the food."
Dr. Crook believed that discipline is appropriate for misbehavior in hyperactive children. "The term discipline, from the Greek, comes from disciple and it really means teaching," he explained. "You've got to teach the child and there are clear scientific studies to show that rewarding good behavior, even with a smile or a pat, is much better than punishing a behavior that you disapprove of. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Fruits and vegetables also contain important health-essential nutrients known as phytochemicals—nature's food coloring agents. They give fruits and vegetables their color. And to obtain vitamin D, the best and cheapest source is sunlight. B12 basically consists of microbes living in your mouth and gut. There is no need to look for other sources of vitamins.
Hidden Perils of Vitamin Pills
Vitamins D and A
Calciferol, known as vitamin D, is not a vitamin in the real sense since the body is capable of producing it itself. |
Ron Garner
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 Between 1940 and 1980, the consumption of: eggs decreased 25% food coloring increased 90%
Between i960 and 1980, the consumption of:
Soft drinks increased 300%. The average person now consumes 38 gallons (144 liters) of soft drinks annually, and one-fifth of our sugar intake is in soft drinks.
Other statistics tell us that since the early part of the 1900s, the consumption of whole grain products and potatoes is half of former levels, whereas the consumption of animal and dairy products is now significantly higher. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Colors
The total annual consumption of food coloring in the United States is approximately 120 million pounds for the entire population. Food color additives are officially designated as either certified or exempt from certification. The food color additives that are exempt from certification are primarily natural in origin. This reflects the popular belief that natural compounds are safer. This contention appears to hold up to scientific scrutiny. Table 3.1 lists the current status of food color additives.
TABLE 3. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They're really into brand-name foods that have toxic ingredients like hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, artificial food coloring and sodium nitrite, which promotes cancer. There are a lot of dangerous ingredients in those foods, and this seems to be par for the course at these wholesale clubs.
But you know what? That's what people buy, and you can't really blame these retailers for carrying what people are going to buy. When consumers shift their demand toward healthier items, then the wholesale clubs will start carrying those healthier items. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Haas: I am referring to food chemicals in processed foods, food additives, food coloring and food flavoring. I am referring to chemicals that we use in over-the-counter medicines and even prescription medicines. I am not telling people just to go off all these things, although getting off the food chemicals certainly does not hurt.
I find if we go through the detoxification process, we do not just turn to medicines or drugs. If we do not feel well, we more clearly ask ourselves, "Why am I not feeling well? What is the problem? What are the causes of this problem? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid milk and dairy products, food additives, added sugars, artificial food coloring and artificial sweeteners. You know the drill. You know how to be healthy. You know how to prevent breast cancer. It's not that difficult to prevent.
Live your life in a healthy, happy way and stay away from these insane surgeons with scalpels and mad ideas about removing organs that might someday have cancer. I mean, think about it: They want to take a perfectly healthy piece of tissue off of your body. There's not even any disease in it, but they'd still like to take it.
That's insane! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And come to think of it, most prescription drugs are encapsulated in colored capsules made with artificial food coloring chemicals that promote nervous system disorders. Most packaged meat products are made with sodium nitrite, an ingredient that's highly carcinogenic and promotes colon cancer. Diet sodas still contain aspartame, an ingredient that's classified as an excitotoxin because of the way in which it kills nerve cells and damages the nervous system, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock. |
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