Why the Fuck is Yellow5 in Pickles? What, do they grow Blue cucumbers and so they have to add Yellow DYE to make them look Green? It doesn't make sense why a company would Pay to add a useless color to a food.
Mt. Olive Make-A-Wish? Yeah, I'll make a wish. I wish y'all would stop poisoning us, making more Make-A-Wish kids.
Backstory, I'm allergic to food dyes and was really looking forward to eating something that grows out of the ground so I wasn't particularly concerned with checking the ingredients before I purchased them.
I guess I'll just start buying 2 apples. One to send off to a lab for testing, and one to possibly eat once the results are in.
I'm starting to believe this is intentional at this point. This is not the first time I've found dyes in "natural" foods.
CHANGE MY MIND
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B-b-bbbut it’s ‘kosher’ goy!
I believe there are certain things that turn blue when being pickled and exposed to sunlight (garlic as an example). I wonder if this is what they are trying to cover?
why do americans get their pensis chopped off at birth?
Why do pickles come on everything?
What happened to taking all the dyes out of our food? I guess the same thing that happened to untaxed overtime. Anyway, Claussen is the superior pickle, but even it has polysorbate 80 in it, there’s no escaping bad shit in our food here.
Store brand/generic usually uses tumeric in place of dye for pickles.
I can offer insight to this one! So, when fresh, cucumbers have a green skin and a white/pale green interior. Then, once pickled, a natural cucumber pickle starts out light green, but over a period of time, especially when exposed to light, turns a brownish yellow and will have uneven and splotchy colors on individual pickles.
Market research has shown that consumers hate these natural pickles. That if given the choice, they will prefer other dyed pickles, or even no pickles at all.
So the pickles are dyed in order to keep sales up. But why not use natural, vegetable based dyes? Because one, they’re expensive and bring profits down, and two, they’re very hard to source. Not many companies make natural food safe dyes, but those that do frequently only make small amounts and they commonly go out of business because the profit margins on natural food safe dyes are very small and they are liable to losing their sources due to droughts and shipping issues.
So I completely agree that we are being poisoned, but it’s mainly because of profit motive.
The good companies just use turmeric for color – it’s so still we need to color food though.
Cheaper than turmeric which is used for color on pickles sometimes
Totally unnecessary, and it gives them an unnatural coloration. We’ve had great luck making our own pickles from our garden cucumbers. Of course it takes time, even if you use strore bought pickles, but it’s worth it, and you can control what goes into them. You can buy pre-packaged pickling ingredients that don’t have artificial crap, or mix up your own. It’s amazing how many foods you can pickle.
That’s why I read everything and can’t even buy my favorite pickles.
Colored with cancer
Why does it need additional preservatives (Sodium Benzoate)? The vinegar ensures this already, and so does the salt.
They are intentionally processing foods far beyond necessary.
Great Value (Walmart) pickles don’t even use food dye at all.
Yo just a heads up pickles aren’t a vegetable
I don’t get why this is too confusing tbh…
People like visually appealing products and companies cater to that. So I’m sure they found through their market research that the end product they got by adding yellow dye was more effective in the market and continue to do that.
Also, a lot of things aren’t necessarily company’s faults and really we have a lot of dumb ass people out here that would rather buy the “perfect looking pickle” than what a natural pickle would look like.
A lot of people have an odd affinity with unnatural things and don’t seem to appreciate the beauty of nature…
Most food stuff comes down to market demands, cheapest pricing, and cost effectiveness for profit. They cut corners and don’t give a fuck what the result of that is.
Grillo’s pickles are probs the best pickles ive ever had. They have real herbs and spices you can see, no preservatives or dyes. Like most real food, they are refrigerated only though.
Switch to fresh pickles from the deli area of your store. Or pickle your own. Theyre way better
This is most definitely not a conspiracy. Almost everything has dye. Shop for fresh meat, fish, and vegetables and avoid processed food as often as you can.