Not all e numbers are bad for you but this is the problem, how do the general public know the difference. Food colouring alternatives are now also being found from a natural as possible source. Why, well unless you have excellent memory retention and lots of spare time it would be impossible to know what all the e numbers are. Food as an item that we shop for often. The blue smartie issue played a factor in this when an alternative for the potentially harmful synthetic colour E133, brilliant blue was sourced.

E numbers are sometimes referred to as the secret ingredient.

E Numbers - Do We Really Know What We Are Eating. Unfortunately there remain many products which contain synthetic food colouring. Food colouring is one of the big uses of e numbers in the food we consume daily and the sweets our children eat too. The company who produce this product now use Spirulina which is obtained from blue green lake algae instead to provide the blue food colouring.

Instead of chemistry food, the search for natural as possible is now hitting the mainline market.