California Declares War on Skittles

California Declares War on Skittles

THE SIGNAL

My 9‑year-old son and his teammates often buy
Skittles
at wrestling tournaments. Their theory is that eating them before matches gives them energy — especially certain colored ones.“The red ones make you kick a**,” one boy told me. (I told him that’s good but that he shouldn’t use that word.)
CALIFORNIA COULD BAN SKITTLES, SOUR PATCH KIDS, AND CAMPBELL’S SOUP OVER ADDITIVES
As it happens, Skittles has been in the news lately. Proposed legislation in California
would ban the candy
, which was first introduced in North America in 1979. At issue are several chemicals most people have never heard of — brominated vegetable oil, red dye No. 3, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, and potassium bromate — that critics allege are da …

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