Cheetos

Your favorite Pepsi products will get natural dye makeover, including Gatorade and Cheetos

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Your favorite Pepsi products will get natural dye makeover, including Gatorade and Cheetos

Pepsi has a new challenge: keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting. PepsiCo, which also makes Doritos, Cap’n Crunch cereal, Funyuns, and Mountain Dew, announced in April that it would accelerate a planned shift to using natural colors in its foods and beverages. Around 40% of its U.S. products now contain synthetic dyes, … Read more

Ex-PepsiCo exec who claimed he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos loses defamation lawsuit against snack giant

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Ex-PepsiCo exec who claimed he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos loses defamation lawsuit against snack giant

PepsiCo won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former executive who said the food and beverage company defrauded and defamed him by denying that he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Judge John Holcomb said Richard Montanez, who retired from PepsiCo in 2019 to become a full-time motivational speaker, did … Read more

Cheetos food dye turns mice transparent — and scientists say there’s a simple explanation

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Cheetos food dye turns mice transparent — and scientists say there’s a simple explanation

This is no puff piece. Researchers have uncovered the fact that a popular food dye used in Cheetos can turn mice’s skin completely transparent — making their organs visible. Tartrazine, the yellowing agent for the “dangerously cheesy” snack, was tested on the stomachs and heads of mice — with surprising results. Tartrazine, the yellowing agent for … Read more

National Park says a bag of Cheetos smuggled in was ‘world-changing’: ‘Huge impact’

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National Park says a bag of Cheetos smuggled in was ‘world-changing’: ‘Huge impact’

Just one bag of Cheetos can be “world changing.” A parkgoer at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico recently dropped a bag full of Cheetos at the caverns. That one bag of the dusty orange snack made a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, the park said in a Facebook post. A parkgoer at … Read more

Rest in cheese: Man builds 3,000-pound tomb to preserve Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

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Rest in cheese: Man builds 3,000-pound tomb to preserve Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

May the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos forever rest in cheese. A Seattle man revealed that he custom-built a tomb for a bag of hot Cheetos in an effort to preserve the savory snack “for centuries.” The TikToker — who goes by the name of Sunday Nobody — posted the video Sunday depicting the whole process from … Read more