Why do we have artificial colors in our food?

Our food has way too many chemical additives. I bet much of causes cancer and they do not even know it. Look at the drastic increase in cancer diagnosis over the last 50 years. Why do they not just leave it out. I would still buy it and that stuff costs money to put in food. Seems like a win win situation here.

Because real natural color fades when food is cooked. So they add the fake color to make it look more appealing. therefore people buy it. But yes...way too many chemicals in our food these days. Also, I'd suggest stay away from anything that says High Frustose Corn Syrup...Its in like 80 percent of all processed fodd and drinks and already known to cause cancer. Hope this helps.

The Syko Ward

Lots of other foods can cause cancer such as fat products.YOu can also make food colouring out of some special bugs, some special spices etc. YEs there is nothing good about chemicals in our food but you can prevent them all together. Go with most natural fresh food you can find.take care

to make them more appatizing.

because it wouldn't look tastefull -- and many people including my self have trouble eating foods that look un appetizing -- yea i think they should take them out to -- if they did people would all get used to the appearance of the food and we would find it appetizing and we would all be healthy.

you make a good point :)

companies put artificial color in foods to make it look cool. for instance, a candy maker would put purple artificial color in grape flavored candy so it would look like it would taste like grape. People are not going to want to eat candy (or other food) that doesn't look like what it should taste like.