Artificial Food Colours: Eye-Catching but Harmful to Health
LifeStyle
Attractive artificial food colours may enhance visual appeal but act as slow poisons. Experts warn they can have harmful effects on health, especially with long-term consumption.
Colourful food items may look good on the eyes but they pose a huge threat to health. Some artificial colours that are not meant for use in food are also added surreptitiously to make food items colourful. The only way to avoid these is to avoid food with artificial colours as much as possible.
Eye-catching candies, ice-creams of different flavours have a maze of colours that look beautiful but the reality is the opposite.
Whether it is packaged food items or dishes made in restaurants, food dyes or colours are used in all of them. Concerns are being expressed about these artificial food colours not only in India but all over the world. Let us understand this business of colours and know about the harm they cause to health.