Will the food dye in M&M’s really give me cancer?

no

Your posts will give you cancer.

Being overweight from eating candy will increase your chances of getting multiple types of cancer.

If you're lucky it'll be in the same limb you have removed because of the diabetes.

It already has. You'll stop breathing soon.

Not cancer, just AIDS.

In 1971, however, Soviet scientists announced that Red No. 2 caused cancer. Public outcry in the U.S. against the dye quickly gained such fervor that the Mars candy company temporarily stopped producing red M&Ms despite the fact that they had never contained Red No. 2 in the first place.

In 1976, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that, in high doses, Red No. 2 could cause cancer in female rats. The FDA declared it an ingredient non grata in the United States because although it had never been shown to pose health risks to humans, no one had been able to prove it safe, either.

Elsewhere, Red No. 2 remains legal, and was declared harmless most recently by the European Food Safety Authority in 2010. In the U.S., the food industry could petition for the dye's re-legalization, if it can be proven safe in animals. However, such testing would be expensive, so it's unlikely to be done because Red No. 2's successor, Red No. 40, is legal and readily available in the United States and Canada.

But in a twist of fate, the European Food Safety Authority recently recommended limiting children's intake of Red No. 40. As a result, while Red No. 2 is illegal in the U.S. but flows freely in the EU, the near-opposite is true for Red No. 40.

If going to A&M for 4 years and having your classmates drive down your dirt road that whole time doesn't give you cancer then I think you'll be okay with M&Ms.

But it's still true the green ones make chicks horny, right???

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Will the food dye in M&M’s really give me cancer?

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No but if you have cancer you can probably ask all your loved ones for M&M's and they'll bring you as many as you want.

So if you play your cards right, cancer can give you M&M's.

Only if you butt plug the whole bag, Aggie.