Listening to the call to stop artificial ingredients from the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pepsico is not spending any time starts.
Ramon Laguarta, Mayor of Pepsico Inc. And the chief executive, said in a call at the April 24 conference that the company will reduce artificial ingredients and has already begun to do so, as Food business news reported.
“We have guided the industry transformation for a long time in lowering sodium, lowering sugar and the best fats,” Laguarta said.
“Sixty percent-plus of our (portfolio) today does not have any artificial color,” he said-and the company is “passing that transition”.
Lagarta mentioned examples such as Lay’s and Tostitos, which “will be out of artificial colors by the end of this year.”
He added, “So we are developing well.”
RFK Jr. and Dr. Martin Makary, Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration in the US, announced a ban on synthetic oil -based colors from US food supply last Tuesday.
As HHS noted in its news announcement, among the steps to be taken are “the creation of a national standard and the time limit for the food industry to the transition from petrochemical colors to natural alternatives”.
“Initiating the process to revoke the authorization for two synthetic food coloring – red citrus No. 2 and orange B – within the next few months; and working with industry to eliminate six remaining synthetic colors – FD & C Green No. 3, FD & C Red No. 40, FD & C Yellow No. 5, FD & C Yellow & C. Nr.
Certified nutritionist and supporter of “Make America Healthy”, Liana Werner-Gray told Fox News Digital, “this is a big public health victory and delayed a lot.”
Werner-Gray is the author “Earth’s Diet”, which began as a blog for what she ate to help promote healing and correct her health problems after she was diagnosed with cancer.
The earth’s diet, she said, is “everything to get back in nature and eat food by nature, eating real food, eating foods that God naturally provides us,” she told Fox News Digital.
“I have personally eliminated artificial colors like Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1 and others from my diet over 16 years ago when I started the earth’s diet, living a natural lifestyle,” said Werner-Gray.
It would suffer from the frequent major oscillations of mood, anxiety, skin partitions and energy collisions, as well as strong impulsive incentives to eat processed food, she said.
“After removing these colors and switched to natural, food-based alternatives, even those symptoms were removed,” Werner-Gray said, adding that its customers reported similar results.
In Werner-Gray’s opinion, food manipulation has been going on for a long time, she said.
“This action by FDA under secretary Kennedy and the leadership of Commissioner Macary is a key step towards restoring integrity in our food system,” she said.
“Time time to raise the standard. Pure, natural and nutritious food should be the norm, not a luxury.”
At the April 24 conference call, Pepsico’s CEO noted that chips, puffs and other snacks are safe to consume and that the company stands near the existing science, according to reports.
“Consumerdo consumer will have the opportunity to choose what they prefer,” Laguarta said.
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