Will you get cancer if you eat candy with red/blue dye?

only if youre in california

anywhere else and youre free & clear

You should also include artificial sweeteners, fried foods, hot dogs, ham, and bacon.

In the USA and the rest of the industrialized world most people who developed cancer have eaten candy or other food with blue or red dye.

However, its very rare that the blue or red dye had anything to them developing cancer.

At the same time it is true that there is evidence that if you were to eat enough blue or red dye that you could develop cancer from that.

I don't know the quantity required, but I recall someone calculating that a person would have to eat something like 30+ lb of another chemical every day to likely get cancer from it. Eating that much in a day is not even possible. You might eat 1/10 of a teaspoon of it on your worst day. So the risk is very minute.

Another thing to put it into perspective: Some years ago one of the researchers in this area wondered one day about if there were carcinogens on the grilled chicken he was cooking for a family get together. There was, I believe over a hundred different carcinogenic compounds were quickly identified from grilled chicken.

Not only that, but many of those chemicals on the grilled chicken were 1000 times (or more) carcinogenic than all the chemicals they were labeling as carcinogenic in foods and food additives.

So relax a bit about how much red and blue dye you might concum

Anything can give you cancer.

Yes. It’s true.

I'm pretty sure there are only about 5 or 6 things left that DON'T cause cancer

There's been links I think, but cancer is so completely random that there are very, very few things where you can conclusively say "if you do this, you WILL get cancer."

I eat so much charred food (I like it crispy!), and I ingested so much Red 40 as a kid that I should have super-cancer by now, but I don't.

I have tried to avoid artificial dyes in recent years, but it's hard. All the cancer-giving junk food that actually tastes good refuses to use natural colors. Or real sugar. Or recycled, environmentally safe materials. Or non-slave labor.

Yes, you will get bum cancer and die

Pretty much everything can lead to getting it. Particularly when it comes to things that you consume. Even consuming slightly charred food has been linked to getting cancer.

Yes, there are ways to reduce your odds. But, take it from me, there's not much you can do.