Talk:Amaranth (dye)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Chemicals Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chemicals, a daughter project of WikiProject Chemistry, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of chemicals. To participate, help improve this article or visit the project page for details on the project.ChemicalsWikipedia:WikiProject ChemicalsTemplate:WikiProject Chemicalschemicals articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Medicine: Society / Toxicology Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Society and Medicine task force (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by the Toxicology task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Untitled

Currently the article says "Amaranth was made from amaranth plants." -- isn't this dye, also known as Red Dye #2, a synthetic dye made from coal tar? I have marked the article as needing references. --Larrybob 22:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also don't think it is made from amaranth plants. Also, it should no longer be called "FD&C Red No.2". It should be called "Former FD&C Red No.2" since it is no longer certifiable by the FDA. - Afong 14:35, 01 September 2006 (UTC)

Decomposing

Does this dye change color when it decomposes or is the decomposed dye the same color as the plain dye? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.188.253.13 (talk) 03:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

WikiProject Food and drink Tagging

This article talk page was automatically added with {{WikiProject Food and drink}} banner as it falls under Category:Food or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. The bot was instructed to tagg these articles upon consenus from WikiProject Food and drink. You can find the related request for tagging here . Maximum and careful attention was done to avoid any wrongly tagging any categories , but mistakes may happen... If you have concerns , please inform on the project talk page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 01:17, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hives

I know a woman in California who when she was very young broke out in hives whenever she consumed anything containing amaranth, prior to its ban. How widespread was this side effect? knoodelhed (talk) 22:10, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Toxicology

Teratology studies on food colourings. Part I. Embryotoxicity of amaranth (FD & C Red No. 2) in rats — C M B J 12:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklisted Links Found on Amaranth (dye)

Cyberbot II has detected links on Amaranth (dye) which have been added to the blacklist, either globally or locally. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed or are highly inappropriate for Wikipedia. The addition will be logged at one of these locations: local or global If you believe the specific link should be exempt from the blacklist, you may request that it is white-listed. Alternatively, you may request that the link is removed from or altered on the blacklist locally or globally. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the help desk.

Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:

http://www.druglead.com/cds/amaranth-dye.html
Triggered by \bdruglead\.com\b on the local blacklist

If you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.

From your friendly hard working bot.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 08:43, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting verification and also removed irrelevant source

I removed an irrelevant source in this edit [1]. The source doesn't mention anything about the dye in question so its inclusion here seems to be WP:OR, in particular WP:Syn. I've also requested verifcation. I somewhat doubt that the remaining source mentions anything about "as he had earlier defended the FDA against collusion accusations in his 1975 book". I'm not even sure if the source says "defended the dye in spite of all the evidence". Still since I haven't read the source, I felt it better to give someone the opportunity to confirm it does say this or words to the effect before removal. If the statement is correct, I think the article could do with some expansion. The only evidence mentioned is one single Soviet study. This isn't exactly "all the evidence". (There is also another study but I presume this came after the defending "in spite of all the evidence".) The article could also do with some expansion anyway, since other agencies have looked at the evidence including more recent evidence and concluded there's insufficient cause of concern e.g. [2] and [3]. (And while I don't know much about the Soviet study, the small amount I read about the US study suggest it's the sort of thing that at most suggests there may be merit for further investigation rather than cause for significant concern.) The article briefly mentions it's not banned in the UK and other unnamed places but doesn't mention this despite presenting the concerns in an alarming fashion. Nil Einne (talk) 14:20, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]