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M&M's set August launch for dye-free candies, with 2 colors absent

M&M's makers Mars will debut artificial dye-free candies in August in a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)-compliant move after facing pressure from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.But while the classic candy-maker was able to use natural sources like beets or turmeric to replicate colors like red and yellow, shades of blue have proven considerably more difficult and expensive to recreate naturally. Mars has been replicating blue and brown's artificial coloring using spirulina extract, a concentrated blue-green algae powder, but the substance is prohibitively...

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