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Food Dyes May Protect Against Cancer, Research Found

It was revealed in ScientistAmerica that among synthetic food dyes’s effect, protecting people from cancer may one of the good side.

Gayle Orner, leader of the research at Oregon State University in Corvallis mentioned, “The public perception is that food dyes are bad, but some of them may have good points as well”.

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In the research, she tested some people and found that people’s trout that had been fed DBP in combination with Red 40 had a 50 per cent lower incidence of stomach cancer and a 40 per cent lower incidence of liver cancer.

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