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

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

by geox • 1 year ago

24 16 1 year ago

dtagames• 1 year ago

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.

olivierestsage• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

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

barbazoo• 1 year ago

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

Ekaros• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

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

wormius• 1 year ago

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

Superman flavor is the answer.

teeray• 1 year ago

why does it need to take so long?

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

evanjrowley• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

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.

vouaobrasil• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

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.

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

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