Food colours are the one thing we encounter or consume without realising. Be it your favourite candy tomato ketchup jam jelly breakfast cereal fruit juice soft drink etc. all of these products are loaded with synthetic dyes. Synthetic dyes are coal or petroleum-based and at times are not even purified chemicals. These chemicals have a deleterious effect on your health and some of these chemicals are also carcinogenic in nature. The Prevention of Food adulteration Act (PFA) has permitted the use of certain colours to be added to food items but their concentration has been limited to 100 parts per