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Let Them Eat Organic Blue Jeans

by Derek Markham on February 5, 2009 · 1 comment

blue jeans with flowerBlue dye #1 is a food coloring that used to be made from coal tar, but apparently we don’t have to worry about coal in our candy any more.  According to the FDA, blue dye #1 is now usually made from “raw materials obtained from petroleum.”  What an improvement – you get a dose of petroleum derivative with your sugar fix.

If your kids are into eating blue stuff, might as well let them munch on a pair of organic blue jeans.  At least the cotton is all natural.  As for the blue dye – well, let’s go over the fold to see what’s up with that.

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