2 Moms to Kraft: Stop Using Yellow Dye
Some 215,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org asking the Northfield-based company to stop using artificial food colorings in its mac & cheese products.
Love Kraft’s Mac & Cheese? Two food bloggers are asking the Northfield-based company to make the product yellow-dye free.
Lisa Leake and Vani Hari, food bloggers in North Carolina, started a petition on Change.org asking Kraft to remove artificial food coloring yellow 5 and yellow 6 from its macaroni and cheese product. As of 1 p.m. Monday, some 215,000 people had signed the petition.
The women say the food coloring has been banned in Norway and Austria and causes an increase in hyper activity in children, according to their petition on Change.org.
From their investigation, the women found that Kraft uses natural beta carotene and paprika to create the same color for their Mac & Cheese sold in the United Kingdom because of the country's stricter rules regarding additives, ABC News reported.
Roxanne Junge, who manages Glenview Farmers Market and is the vice president of the Illinois Department of Public Health Farmers Market Task Force, told Glenview Announcements that yellow dye is an allergen that could make people sick. She shared an example of a North Shore farmers market vendor who was shut down because a child got sick from the vendor’s pickles that used yellow dye but did not label it on the container.
Mike
11:14 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Buy whole wheat pasta and REAL cheese instead! Learn how to use your stove, finally
DeAnn Glover
2:59 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Nothing tastes better than home made mac & cheese. Plus it lacks all the addatives & high sodium content that the boxed mac & cheese have. You can even make a little extra for the next day.
My grandchildren had never had home made mac & cheese until I made it for them a year or so ago. Now when I go visit them, they always ask me to make MY mac & cheese.
Penny Novy
4:00 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Agreed, DeAnn. Plus you can experiment and use different cheeses. Homemade mac and cheese is all my husband will eat.
Kathy Ruhnke
5:01 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Kraft has built its processed food empire based on convenience, but mac & cheese is a dish easy enough to make from scratch. My family's favorite is Italian mac & cheese made with parmigiano reggiano, mozzarella and gorgonzola cheeses and topped with Panko breadcrumbs.
Mommy102805
8:52 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
that's not really the point..... obviously people can make mac and cheese from scratch but not everyone is going to and to me thing is the first step to get other companies to follow the trend and get rid of color dies in there food. Everything has to start somewhere and while it easy to make at home obviously not everyone does otherwise kraft would not still be making it. So while it may be easy to say stop complaining and make your own that to me is a very small objective and the bigger picture is what we really need.