3, also known by its fancy scientific name erythrosine, has been the secret behind that perfect red color in everything from your Valentine’s Day candy hearts to your strawberry-flavored drinks.

Studies show that high doses could cause cancer in rats, but the regulators maintain that no evidence exists that ingesting the coloring causes cancer in humans.

Purchasing soda and candy with food stamps would no longer be permitted under a proposed Kansas bill, but whether the federal ...

Republicans want to ban the use of federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds to purchase candy and soda.

Companies have until 2027 to reformulate their food and drinks or to stop selling the ... such as in Peeps candy. Other dyes have faced public pushback, such as red dye No. 40, a widely used ...