Pet Peeve of the Day
Today I am being annoyed about food coloring being present in so many foods. Food coloring, in general, isn't good for you. They are made out of a wide variety of things and some of them are really disgusting. And some food colorings cause serious health issues (often psychological ailments) in some people.
My main gripe about food coloring is that it usually doesn't add to my enjoyment of the food. I don't mind eating some things that are bad for me, but my philosophy is that if I'm going to eat something bad for me, I damn well better enjoy it. I don't want to eat something that is both bad for me and not enjoyable.
So, for me, food coloring just decreases the value of any food it's in by not making it taste better and making it less good for me. Plus, if I think about it, it will sometimes utterly disgust me.
There are some ways to color some foods that are actually fine healthwise and not disgusting, but they won't work well for all foods and aren't usually the methods used. And for a lot of the things I want to eat that contain food coloring, I really can't find alternatives without the food coloring. So, often I just cut back on these foods. But I just wish more companies would leave out the food coloring. I know, some people would find the natural colors disturbing or confusing. But I personally don't care and would rather they left out the food coloring.
It's hard to think of any positive health improvement in my diet that would be simpler and have so little effect on actual enjoyability as if the companies would just sell the same products without the colors added.
My main gripe about food coloring is that it usually doesn't add to my enjoyment of the food. I don't mind eating some things that are bad for me, but my philosophy is that if I'm going to eat something bad for me, I damn well better enjoy it. I don't want to eat something that is both bad for me and not enjoyable.
So, for me, food coloring just decreases the value of any food it's in by not making it taste better and making it less good for me. Plus, if I think about it, it will sometimes utterly disgust me.
There are some ways to color some foods that are actually fine healthwise and not disgusting, but they won't work well for all foods and aren't usually the methods used. And for a lot of the things I want to eat that contain food coloring, I really can't find alternatives without the food coloring. So, often I just cut back on these foods. But I just wish more companies would leave out the food coloring. I know, some people would find the natural colors disturbing or confusing. But I personally don't care and would rather they left out the food coloring.
It's hard to think of any positive health improvement in my diet that would be simpler and have so little effect on actual enjoyability as if the companies would just sell the same products without the colors added.