Unlike candy or cereal, we assume that the color of natural foods are a result of the environment. But some aren’t actually the color we assume. That’s because the government plays a key role in determining the colors of your food!. And for that, we can thank the margarine wars of the late 19th century. Further reading: Public Choice at the Dawn of the Special Interest State: The Story of Butter and Margarine - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3480530?seq=1 The Rise of Synthetic Colors in the American Food Industry - https://www.academia.edu/30440637/The_Rise_of_Synthetic_Colors_in_the_American_Food_Industry_1870_1940?email_work_card=view-paper On The Psychological Impact Of Food Colour - https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13411-015-0031-3 Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-government-came-to-decide-color-your-food-180973962 Time https://time.com/4790794/farmed-salmon-pink/ Subscribe to Cheddar on YouTube: http://chdr.tv/subscribe Connect with Cheddar! On Facebook: http://chdr.tv/facebook On Twitter: http://chdr.tv/twitter On Instagram: http://chdr.tv/instagram On Cheddar.com: http://chdr.tv/cheddar