Cult Flav Is Going Off

Red Dye No. 3, The Ballad of Dyylyn, Ban/Don't Ban (feat. @hydroxide)

Episode Summary

From social platforms to colored food additives, it’s been a week of bans with questionable value, so we asked our friendly neighborhood food scientist, hydroxide to join us to talk about what the red dye no. 3 ban is, why it happened, and what about it matters to you. What she didn’t know is that we’re also going to ask her to weigh in on a followup question about seed oils, and then ambush her with a list of items to ban or not in this week’s Absolutely Rank. I bet she’s got some strong opinions.

Episode Notes

THINGS MENTIONED:

Tochi popcorn (try the Ube flavor) - https://tochisnacks.com/products/tochi-popcorn
Red Dye #3 Ban announcement Jan 15, 2025 - https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-authorization-use-red-no-3-food-and-ingested-drugs
What's the Delaney Clause? - https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-82-3
Who's supporting the ban? - https://www.cspinet.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/Red%203%20petition_24%20Oct%202022_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf
CSPI is publishing sensational articles - https://www.cspinet.org/press-release/red-3-fda-petition
Consumer Reports Advocacy Efforts - https://www.consumerreports.org/issue/food-safety?INTKEY=I000G0000
What is EWG? - https://www.ewg.org
Sprinklegate - https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046348573/sprinklegate-sinks-a-u-k-bakerys-top-sellers-after-topping-is-found-to-be-illega
Yoga mat chemical in bread - https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/06/286886095/almost-500-foods-contain-the-yoga-mat-compound-should-we-care-keep
Eating PTFE to lose weight study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4928218/#:~:text=There%20is%20strong%20evidence%20supporting,extreme%20inertness%20of%20the%20material.

QUESTIONABLE CONTENT:

"I desperately need help explaining to my granola boyfriend that seed oils aren't bad. Any chance you guys can super break this down? I know you already touch on oils a bit" - Kristen
P.s. Kristen or Dyyylan if you're reading this, please know that we're just joking about breaking up. Please don't take our jokes too personally. We're sure Dyyylan (not his actual name) is a lovely person.

As a reminder, if you want to ask questions, go post em in the #going-off channel on cultflav.com/community or call 424-419-FLAV (that’s 424-419-3528).

FOLLOW HYDROXIDE!

THAT'S IT!

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