Why do food manufacturers even add artificial color or sweeteners?!


Question: Why do food manufacturers even add artificial color or sweeteners!?
I mean, if they wanted to generate more profit, couldn't they just stop putting artificial colors and sweeteners in food, which they buy from other chemical manufacturers (correct me if I'm wrong here)!. So less buying for the company, relatively the more profit the company will make, and that does not even include product sales yet!.
For those of you who are thinking this way now, I'm not saying that they should leave artificial ingredients out and replace them with natural ingredients, which I know are more expenisve!. Im saying that if it is an artificial ingredient, then just leave it out of the product altogether!.Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Food manufacturers try to make things look the way people think they are supposed to look!.

I prefer the natural color and when I make lime pies, I don't add green color!. However, most people believe that lime juice is green (it isn't) and so they think a lime pie shold be light green!. If the manufacturer makes the lime pie its natural color it will probably sell less!. Same thing with mint!. Mint doesn't turn everything bright green, but mint chocolate chip ice cream is often this sickly bright green color!.

Most people don't prepare their own food so they have fallacious ideas about what food looks like!.

I agree with you!. I don't want extra sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and food coloring in everything!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Because it won't taste the same, and most people won't think it tastes as good, so they will sell less of the product!.

Believe it or not, artificial flavours enhance the flavour and smell for most people!. Personally I don't usually like them, but I don't think it would be good business tactic for them to just leave them out!. The product would end up radically different and might be very bland!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Natural products spoil quicker, that is why the artifical flavors are needed to offset and hide the preservatives!. With a more health conscious society it seems like natural products are the way to go, but there would be no canned goods and you would also be throwing out food left and right without the preservatives!. Www@FoodAQ@Com





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