People have been naturally coloring their food for a long, long, LONG time — as far back as 1500 B.C. Centuries later in 1856, William Henry Perking stumbled onto the first synthetic dye derived from coal tar. By 1900, roughly 80 unregulated synthetic dyes were used as food colors including lead, mercury and arsenic. It […]
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