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I'm Magna Chakrabardi.

Tukhan Sam made his debut as the Fruit Loops mascot in 1963.

By the time I was a kid in the 1980s, he was a fixture at many breakfast tables in America, including mine.

And I admit, I loved fruit loops, for a while at least.

That sweetness, of course, my adult self looks at that 12 grams of added sugar per surfing now

and feels more than a little gross about it.

But when I was a kid, that sweetness was amazing.

And then there's the color, especially the swirls of color the cereal left behind in the milk.

It felt like slurping up a rainbow at the end of breakfast.

Well, those colors have another name. Red 40, yellow 5, blue one, and yellow 6.

For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of

synthetic chemicals.

The scientific community has conducted a number of studies raising concerns about the correlation

between petroleum-based synthetic dyes and several health conditions.

That is FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin McCari, announcing a little earlier this month that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to phase out eight petroleum-based synthetic dyes commonly used in thousands of food products consumed in the United States.

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