US ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028(apnews.com)

24 ポイント投稿者 geox昨年16 コメント

US ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028

https://apnews.com/article/ice-cream-synthetic-dyes-e334d75f87238e57826bcb65f098ebe2

16 コメント

Thanks, but why does it need to take so long? More importantly, why would ice cream need fake color? What flavor would warrant that?

The story also links to three other big food manufacturers who are phasing out these dyes... over multi-year periods.

teeray昨年

> why does it need to take so long?

So they can wait for US regime change and not do it

olivierestsage昨年

Cynic in me says: "wait as long as possible and hope that the next administration doesn't care." I think there was a similar event recently with Apple vowing to make a big investment in US factory infrastructure or something, but the projected date was 2028.

Uvix昨年

It takes a while to experiment, find what replacement works best and how much of it to use, and then set up new supply chains for it.

As for what flavor would warrant dyes? Off the top of my head: Mint, peppermint, strawberry, orange sherbert, blue moon... I'm sure there's more.

wrboyce昨年

Ben & Jerry’s mint ice cream is white and tastes just fine.

noahjk昨年

In fact, I've always felt that white mint chocolate chip was more premium, but it's definitely gone out of style a bit. I also believe it tasted slightly different - at least the bryers, it was maybe more of a spearmint?

barbazoo昨年

The question was about "need" and no flavor "needs" dye.

cung昨年

To top it off, the issue isn’t dyes, it’s artificial dyes. You can still dye your mint ice cream green, it will just be a slightly lighter shade of green.

whycome昨年

You can get dark natural

evanjrowley昨年

I'm a sucker for Sloan's "Circus" ice cream flavor. It tastes like cotton candy, is mixed together with gummy bears, and is a very unnatural blue color: https://www.goldbelly.com/restaurants/sloans-ice-cream/circu...

AnimalMuppet昨年

At Coldstone, there's some flavor (I forget the name) that I call "Cherenkov". I mean, it's a bit lighter of a blue, but... that's not a normal color for ice cream.

Ekaros昨年

Maybe not ice-cream, but with other frozen products I could see that selling to kids is more effective when there is bright identifiable colours involved.

polski-g昨年

Kids don't have money. You aren't selling it to them.

wormius昨年

I see you're not from the midwest/Michigan.

Superman flavor is the answer.

vouaobrasil昨年

Why not just not use dyes? I'd be happy to eat weirdly-colored ice cream, whose color is just determined by the most essential ingredients.

msgodel昨年

I actually reflexively prefer mint ice cream that's slightly off white to dark green now and I think that's because some of the higher quality brands don't use dye so I associate it with them.