Food Dye Ban Prompts Southern Ice Cream Joint's Radical Menu Change

A shop that makes homemade ice pick is implementing a awesome alteration successful nan measurement it serves scoops.

Stella's Homemade Ice Cream successful Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, precocious announced it will beryllium phasing retired artificial food dyes. 

Haley King, proprietor of Stella's Homemade Ice Cream, told Fox News Digital nan determination stemmed from inspiration from a family member.

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"When we first opened Stella's Homemade Ice Cream, my niece was a fewer months aged and my sister was trying to support dyes retired of her diet," King said. 

"We learned from her and started doing our investigation past astir dyes successful our diets."

Stella's Homemade Ice Cream successful South Carolina has transitioned distant from utilizing artificial nutrient dyes, responding to customer wellness concerns while maintaining people colored stiff desserts, it says. (Stella’s Homemade Ice Cream)

King said Stella's has "been trying to usage dyes sparingly" since opening successful 2022.

"Most of our flavors — astir 150 retired of our 200 flavors — are dye-free," King said.

She said astir ice cream brands astatine nan market shop do usage dyes and that tin beryllium seen connected nan backmost of nan label.

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"Luckily, we make each of our crystal pick in-house and person nan expertise to manipulate really overmuch dye we use, if we usage any," King said.

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) arsenic good arsenic nan U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a prohibition connected petroleum-based synthetic dyes past week, pinch Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Commissioner Martin Makary starring nan charge.

Most of nan flavors astatine Stella's Homemade Ice Cream shop are dye-free, nan institution told Fox News Digital. (Stella’s Homemade Ice Cream)

Artificial nutrient colorings were primitively manufactured from ember tar; today, astir synthetic nutrient dyes are made from petroleum, aliases crude oil, according to nan American Chemical Society (ACS) website.

The dyes commonly recovered successful meal cereals, candy, snacks, beverages, vitamins and "other products [that are] aimed at children are colored pinch dyes," according to an article entitled "The Artificial Food Dye Blues," arsenic shared by nan National Library of Medicine. 

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"Of nan 50ish flavors that do person dye, immoderate of that is retired of our power because of different products that we usage – for example, cereal flavors for illustration Froot Loops aliases Fruity Pebbles aliases flavors that usage cosmic brownies," King said.

Stella's Homemade Ice Cream experiments pinch earthy dyes successful its food, specified arsenic spirulina, turmeric and purple carrot juice. (Stella’s Homemade Ice Cream)

King said nan shop has been experimenting pinch earthy dyes specified arsenic bluish spirulina, turmeric extract and purple carrot juice to colour its crystal creams. 

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"We really conscionable made our first tally of mint cocoa spot crystal pick utilizing nan natural dyes," King said.

She said that switching to earthy dyes complete artificial nutrient coloring does costs more.

"We deliberation it's a beautiful awesome switch."

"However, location is nary sensation alteration successful nan crystal cream, and we deliberation it's a beautiful awesome switch," King said.

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She said she's hopeful that "with nan caller ban, bigger products for illustration M&Ms and cereals [will] make nan move truthful that it tin trickle down to america mom-and-pop shops."