Breakfast, Cooking, Cooking Equipment, Dishes, Artificial Food Dyes
- Ronald Orellana
- Jun 25
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 19
Image Source: Getty Images
Breakfast
Honey Nut Cheerios and Frosted Flakes: America's best-selling cereals (2024); Source: Forbes
Cooking
healthy oils to cook with: extra-virgin olive oil, avocado oil, high-oleic vegetable oils; Source: Washington Post
Cooking Equipment; Source: Land O' Lakes
Broiler Pan: meat is placed on the slotted lid; juices and fat go through the slots into the bottom pan; food is broiled under a gas or electric heat source
Casserole: used to bake a main dish recipe or lasagna
Deep Fat Fryer: electric countertop cooking appliance for deep fat frying foods
Electric Skillet: countertop cooking appliance that can be used to sauté, fry, and cook food; good for pancakes and grilled cheese sandwiches
Saucepan: kitchen utensil used for cooking food
Skewer: kichen tool used for broiling or grilling food (meat, poultry, vegetables, and fruit)
Slow cooker: electric countertop kitchen appliance: cooks with a low, constant heat (6 to 10 hours)
Dishes
cleaning-focused ingredients in dishwasher soap: sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate; Source: Dawn
kitchen sponge: warm, damp and crumb-filled environment allows bacteria to thrive: can contain up to 362 species of microbes (similar to the amount of bacteria you would find in a human stool sample); ideally change them weekly but there are 2 ways to clean them: dishwasher or 1-minute microwave; Source: BBC
Artificial Food Dyes
90% of all food dye used in America: Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6; Source: USA Today
FDA banned Red 3 dye (erythrosine) from America's food supply: January 2027 deadline (ingested drugs have until 2028); found in candies, cough syrup, baked goods, frozen treats; data showed it caused cancer in rats; Source: ABC
food industry pleges to remove petroleum-based food dyes: Conagra Brands, Danone, General Mills, Grupo Bimbo, In-N-Out Burger, Kellanova, Mars, McCormick & Company, Nestlé, PepsiCo; Source: FDA
Benefits of food dye: color impacts how we perceive food, helps determine nutritional value, safe to use, sustainably produced and important in global agriculture, cost effective, add value to food and beverages; Source: International Association of Color Manufacturers
synthetic dyes: petroleum-based chemicals that don't occur in nature; used in foods to visually enhance their appeal; 9 commonly used color additives in food: Red 3, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Yellow 5, Yellow 6; rarely used: Citrus Red 2 and Orange B; Source: ABC
