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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just have been sick with sore throat burning sinuses and itching ears. One day I had pizza it gave me heart burn so I took a antacid and got sick again so I looked at ingredients and it had red dye . So I stopped eating anything with red dye. So today I got fresh cherries and I felt it come back immediately!! So I think they put red dye on fresh cherries too.it takes about 24 hour for it to clear up.[/quote]

I will not argue that you got sick after eating cherries.  But I do think the next step in your logic trail is problematic.  Instead of assuming that the cherries are dyed which is why you go sick maybe look into what the ingredients are in the red dye.  Maybe the red dye is made with some component that occurs naturally in nature, like the red cherry skins.  So you could be allergic to the red cherries and therefore are allergic to the red dye.[/quote]

I looked it up, natural red dye is usually made from cochineal bugs, artificial from petroleum or coal.

But it also occurs to me that the color itself comes from some chemical compounds whatever the original source, so what if someone had an allergy to some of those basic molecules in the dye?

I've also picked cherries, when we visited my cousin in oregon. Definitely deep red. And of course the juice inside the cherry. You'd have to do a lot of damage to the cherry to make that happen artificially. [/quote]

Or, PP wasn't reacting to the red dye in the first place - that is just an assumption she made from a list of ingredients. PP needs to see an allergist to determine what she is actually allergic to -- e.g., my mother is allergic to a fresh fruit preservative wash some places use on fruit, including fresh fruit, cut fruit, and sauces. It isn't always listed on a label because it isn't an "ingredient."[/quote]

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