January 16, 2025 | Issue #137

Hey... Have you seen the coming changes?

In this week's newsletter:🤬 The End of Red Rage?🍫 Good News For Chocolate

Erythrosine Rage No More?

As a parent of two young children, I spend many of my weekends at children's birthday parties. For those of you who have kids, you know how this can be an exhausting (and expensive!) way to spend your weekend...Over the past year, I have seen the same kid at multiple parties act like a lunatic anytime he has red dye stains around his lips. I made a joke about this to a fellow parent, saying something like, "Why is it that everytime [this kid's name] has red lips, he acts like a monster?"The parent laughed and responded to me, "Oh, that's red dye rage. Don't you know about that?"I awkwardly laughed back like I pretended that I knew what this 'red dye rage' was. Then, after the party, I went down the rabbit hole of researching all about red dye and other food coloring. HOLY SHEEEEEEET. Am I the only person that didn't know that many food coloring dyes in the U.S. have been banned in the EU for years? And that for over three decades, many food dyes have also been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs because of data demonstrating that it causes cancer in animals?!Of course, as someone who is a longevity enthusiast and well aware of diet issues in the U.S., this shouldn't have come as much of a surprise. Personally, I am relatively strict about the food my family and I eat compared to the average U.S. consumer. But this whole red dye thing really opened my eyes to a much larger problem, which may be changing. Yesterday, the FDA banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation’s food supply. "The dye is known as erythrosine, FD&C Red No. 3 or Red 3. The ban removes it from the list of approved color additives in foods, dietary supplements and oral medicines, such as cough syrups. More than three decades ago, the FDA declined to authorize use of Red 3 in cosmetics and externally applied drugs because a study showed it caused cancer when eaten by rats." -APPerhaps this change in policy will lead to more much needed transformations in the U.S. food industry? For those of us in the longevity industry, this is an incredible time to take advantage of the changing sentiment in public perception about food. What's on your list of things that should be changed about what we eat?Have a great weekend, 

CodyFounder, Spannr

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