‘Natural’ dye doesn’t make any of those things any less ultra-processed.
Also, natural doesn’t mean it’s automatically healthy. There are loads of natural things which are toxic. Like many shrooms for example. Super natural, can even be deadly.
Meh. They’re already on my boycott list (Pepsico, Frito-Lay) when they rolled back DEI earlier this year.
Pepsi also never left Russia after they invaded Ukraine. In fact they’ve increased their business in the country to fill the gap left by companies like Coca-Cola pulling back.
https://leave-russia.org/pepsico
https://leave-russia.org/coca-cola
Bring back Crystal Pepsi, you cowards
I mean, they did like 8 years ago or something. It was not as good as I remembered.
Dude for real.
I don’t care about either of those, but I’m kind of curious what Doritos would be like without any dye at all. The power on the stuff makes a visible mess, because it’s so intense in color. It should be possible to achieve the flavor without the color.
I feel like it wouldn’t change much since it’s mostly dehydrated cheddar, chili powder and paprika. All those combined already make a fairly reddish-orange color that will still absolutely stick to your fingers.
Maybe slightly paler?
Ah, thanks for looking at it. Hmm.
Paprika is mostly for color, so they could maybe drop that. Chili powder…well, for the spiciness, you can just put capsaicin in directly.
Cheddar is actually normally white. The orange color we’re used to is itself mostly added coloring, so one could use white cheddar.
goes looking for something on cheddar coloring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese
Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added)…
Dammit, the more I talk about it, the more I really want non-terribly-messy Doritos. If Frito-Lay doesn’t want to do it, I wonder if some other corn chip manufacturer could clone it and just dump the coloring.
https://www.kroger.com/p/doritos-simply-organic-spicy-white-cheddar-tortilla-chips/0002840074477
About the same. The non-spicy ones look more like plain tortilla chips. On these ones, the spice powder is colorful enough without added dye.
Thanks. I think, though, that the “organic spice powder” is probably changed for the organic version, to include things that act as natural colors.
So, it looks like (regular) Doritos uses Yellow 5, an artificial color. I don’t see any breakdown for Doritos, but for another food that was replacing Yellow 5:
To replace Yellow 5, GNT uses carrot, pumpkin, algal carotene and turmeric.
So my guess is that turmeric probably would qualify as “organic spices”, and you’d use it to color things.
This…this is how you make America healthy again?
i’ll have a triple bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon and extra cheese, a pound of french fries, and a 64oz gatorade with no food coloring, please.
#helth
That’ll be 14.88 sir please drive up.
I’m simultaneously amazed by how expensive this shit has gotten and by how cheap it was in the first place…
ISWYDT
I guess laughing at fascists is part of resistance.
and a 64oz gatorade
Moderation to an extent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Gulp
At 128-US-fluid-ounce (3,800 ml), the Team Gulp remains the largest fountain offering in the world.[5]
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