Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Food Coloring

Naturally Colored Foods

Another food revelation came after our oldest daughter had attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and I read that there was a link between sweetened foods, preservatives, artificial food colors, and

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Serving a platter of palascinta.

Hungarian Palascinta

In food news today, Nestle is going to remove food coloring from all of its chocolate candy products – like Butterfinger’s red 40 and yellow 5 – by the end

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Four glasses of unnaturally colored drinks.

Lakes and Additives

There are three types of colors used in food and cosmetics. First are natural colors that come from nature, plants, insects, etc. such as turmeric and annatto. Second are synthetic

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Not exactly like Grandma made but Americans love their colorful foods..

Tricky Labels

  Have you ever been to a farm stand and found produce with a sticker on it from the grocery store? Some people buy produce and then sell it at

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A platter full of frosted carrot cake cookies

Carrot Cake Mix

On my top ten never-buy processed food list is carrot cake mix. Besides partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) and other chemicals, there are absolutely no carrots in it whatsoever. The

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Five jars of pickles in front of stained glass

Canning Pickles

Another great day for canning and this time I made pickles. My cucumber plants are dry already so I bought 13 cucumbers at the farmer’s market for $4.00. This amount

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Granola Bar Comparison

I was in line getting a coffee recently and the woman in front of me was telling the barista about a granola bar she liked (I didn’t catch what kind

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