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From association of red with spicy to unnatural, exciting colors in sweets, here's why eating with your eyes works.

Save the date for #ThisIsTucson's third annual market featuring 100 vendors, food trucks, live music and more on Feb. 22 in ...

Springtime is one of my favorite times of year. After a season blanketed in snow or draped in cold, the earth begins to spring to life once more – literally spring. Animals come out ...

Want to add a tinge of pink to your Valentine's Day bakes without using dyes? The good news is there are plenty of ...

The FDA recently banned the use of one of those dyes, Red Dye No. 3. Brian Ronholm, director of food policy for Consumer ...

Discover what FDA's red dye ban means for your food safety. Learn which synthetic colors remain in your favorite foods and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of red dye No. 3 in foods, more than three decades after researchers discovered its link to cancer in rodents and to worsened attention deficit ...

This storage gives the skin a characteristic golden hue, most notably when carotenoid-rich foods are consumed in ... cause urinary and faecal colour change. These colourful tales carry more ...

The adage “you are what you eat” usually refers to overall health and nutrition, but that phrase can be startlingly literal when our skin takes on unexpected colors. The cases above ... most notably ...