Natural Alternatives to FD&C Colors: Phasing Out Synthetic Dyes

Well they say the FD&C colors are goin buh bye.    Anyone out there freaking out about it?   Plans to replace um?   What are you going to use in their place? 

We use Yel 5+6 around here, but I've wanted to get rid of them since I started working here.   We used to use Red 40 but I was able to kill that one off.    I think our plan for now is just phase them out a percentage at a time and customers won't even notice.   We do have some natural stuff in house, turmeric annatto etc, but I don't plan on trying to bring them into the fray unless a customer complains or something like that.    The products affected aren't for a single customer, ton of customers buy um, so there's no way to sample, get the ok, etc.

I don't, but I was thinking this is a pretty sweet time to drop them for companies. There is enough media attention around it that all the big buyers know changes are coming and especially for dye'd food products. You're going to get your outliers, but consumers should put 2 and 2 together when they notice their yellow skittles aren't the same vibrant neon yellow.

We've gotten notices from 3 major retail customers already about the topic.  We have a breading that uses Yellow 5 but that was it.  Tried to warn the formulation guys to be on the lookout for either our supplier to reformulate or procurement to source a new breading, label people need to be ready for it too.

I'm happy to see it.  Food should be food, not a lab experiment gone awry.

No panic here.  I'm in confectionary currently and find that he FD&C's in a lot of sprinkles-nonpareils.  Been advising our largest private label company on this for sometime being in California.  Happy to be getting rid of them to be honest and have already sourced alternatives.  Currently most of our confectionary toppings are colored with natural colors and flavorings so only a few outliers to handle.