Color me Purple

Or red, green, maybe yellow. 

Then again, maybe not.

Experts are being summoned by the F.D.A. to "review the evidence and advise on including warning labels on food as it relates to artificial food coloring."  A link, it seems, has been bandied about that artificial food coloring can cause hyperactivity or behavior problems in some children.

Let's think about this for a minute.

Food coloring/high sugar content?  Let's weigh that again. Food coloring/high sugar content. Any correlation that you can see? Froot Loops, Pop tarts, Twinkies anyone? Yet, it appears that some parents are convinced that when they eliminated foods that were artificially food colored the behavior of their progeny improved.  

Really?

As for us grown ups...it appears that if it looks yellow, without any change in taste, we think it's banana flavored. Go figure. Gray food, I suppose, holds little appeal.

I suppose putting on a blind fold prior to eating seems a tad over the top. Besides, how would we rate the chef's presentation skills?

I, for one, find the whole debate odd.

Except for one thing.

When was the last time you saw red pistachio nuts?

Right. In forever. After all, after you had indulged in consuming a pound, give or take, of that delicacy, did you want to be caught, literally, red handed?