Why my experience with food dye is unimportant to most people
When I share our experience with food dye, I'm never met with the response I feel it deserves. There's a certain amount of incredulousness, and silence. There is a discomfort, that if they acknowledge my story as truth, it contradicts several other parts of their belief system. The only time I received a response that was both thoughtful, concerned and disturbed by the reality of our experience was when I reached out to a molecular biologist from Guelph University who studied food dye. Her response was due to her own distrust of the chemical. I asked her for any information about what could be happening physiologically when my daughter consumed dye. This was what she said: I t could be a gut microbe that colonized her which metabolizes dye to a psychoactive substance. This is understudied, and to me the reason that Health Canada should immediately re-evaluate the situation. We all harbour different microbes, some of which ha
