Does this product contain a phased-out dye?
The live check isn't built yet. Until it is, here is how to read a label yourself — and the pages where we have already done it for you.
Coming soon
We are still building the live lookup against the FDA phase-out list. Until then, the fastest check is the label itself — look for Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1 and Red 3.
Where to look in the meantime
- Foods with Red Dye 40: 19 products checkedChecked by label, plus the categories where it hides.
- Red Dye 3: is it banned, and what does 2027 mean?What the phase-out actually covers, and by when.
- Snacks without Red Dye 40Swaps, once you know what you want to replace.
- FDA: color additives, questions and answers for consumers (opens in a new tab)The regulator's own answers on approved color additives.
When it is live, this checker will match a product against the FDA color-additive status list and our catalog. It will be educational either way — not a substitute for reading the label, which is the one check that always works.
Part of the Food Dyes hub— the rest of our coverage in this category.
Every dye-free snacksproduct we've reviewed— what we'd buy, what we'd skip, and where each one stands.
Every source we cite is checked against our criteria first — see how we check our sources.