Comment by dylan604
3 days ago
Color is definitely something that catches a person's eye, so if you have a "food product" that needs extra to convince someone to buy it, color is a way to do it. You can't taste it before purchasing. You can see and smell it, so they push those levers as much as they can.
Mandate big font "contains carcinogens" label when your food contains this colour. Then let the buyer choose whether s/he finds this shade of bright red attractive or not.
Multiplied by the hundreds of decisions people make every day and now you know why we have the FDA.
People cannot become experts for every decision they must make.
You mean like the big ugly boxes on cigarettes?
Maybe, and I see your point, but there are few alternatives to having them on a cig pack, whereas you could not dye your food and remove this label. As a consumer, the choice is rather simple (for me at least)
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So in other words: no, we don't need it, particularly since people need to consume less ultraprocessed foods, not more.