[DougB]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

Has anyone ever had an M&M candy or given some to your grandchildren? Most likely all of us.

On our morning ABC news today we learned that the colored dyes on M&M's are petroleum based.

I tried to find the actual news report but it isn't posted yet.
However, hyperlink above is basically the gist of it.
(sorry, link broken....will try to find the actual news report of a few minutes ago).

The mother began a petition against the artificial colors.
Europe uses vegetable dyes. So simple; a no brainer, right?


Since artificial color is also in so many other food substances (not just M&M's)
we may all be ingesting a lot more petroleum based dyes than we can even imagine.

So, I guess that's why I've had so much gas lately.