Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the nation's first law banning four "toxic" chemical food additives found in popular drinks, baked goods, candy and snacks.

California became the first state in the nation to prohibit four food additives found in popular cereal, soda, candy and drinks after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a ban on them Saturday.

The California Food Safety Act will ban the manufacture, sale or distribution of brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye No. 3 — potentially affecting 12,000 products that use those substances, according to the Environmental Working Group.

The legislation was popularly known as the “Skittles ban” because an earlier version also targeted titanium dioxide, used as a coloring agent in candies including Skittles, Starburst and Sour Patch Kids, according to the Environmental Working Group. But the measure, Assembly Bill 418, was amended in September to remove mention of the substance.

  • EssentialCoffeeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    You should be driven more by the content of your food, than how “pretty” it is.

    That’s not how people work.

    You could have the most delicious beef Wellington on the planet, but if it looks like monkey brains, it’s going to give people a gag reflex. If you have a good that your brain expects to taste one way and it tastes another way, then it might cause a gag reflex or other aversion. Of your food looks spoiled, people will be adverse to it even if it’s fresh and perfectly fine.

    You can’t undo human survival evolution because it’s ‘unnecessary’ with the snap of your fingers.

    • bobman@unilem.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can tell you’re so bogged down in theory that it blinds you from reality.

      The only way you can realize you’re wrong is a demonstration, but you think that your theories are so accurate that a demonstration isn’t necessary.

      Ahh well. The wonders of academia. Lol.

    • fishos@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year ago

      Except that modern colors are faked. Natural strawberry stuff isn’t red. “Red cookie = strawberry” is not reality. This idea that the whole food has to be the color of its flavor is manufactured. You expect it now because it’s all you’ve ever known.

      This has nothing to do with spoiled food and you’re being completely disingenuous.

      • EssentialCoffeeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Saying that the way food looks doesn’t matter in the first place is disingenuous. There’s a reason why companies pay so much to have things look a certain way. So if my attempt at explaining why it matters is also disingenuous, it’s because the comment I replied to started off with a disingenuous premise.

        You expect it now because it’s all you’ve ever known.

        Yes, I already covered this in my comment.