One of our favorite things to grow in our garden is peas! Fresh peas are amazingly sweet and our peas usually don’t even make it into the house. There’s another reason to grow your own instead of buying the canned version. Canned peas are sometimes dyed with an artificial dye made from petroleum. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that petroleum shouldn’t be ingested – the FDA is also looking into a link between food dyes and hyperactivity in children. Click here to read the whole article.
If you’re interested in finding out if your favorite foods have synthetic dyes in them, you can check out the IATP Brain Food Selector.
Here’s a picture of my oldest when she was four, shelling a whole bowl full of peas. When she has peas, she doesn’t share. I’m planting extra peas this year so I can partake of them as well.
Hi Bethany,
I never come up with anything when I do a search for Nebraska garden blogs. The Deep Middle was the only one I knew of until I stumbled across Old Dave’s Garden. I can’t tell from your blog that you are in Nebraska. I wonder if there are others of us out there.
I had heard about the dyes in foods causing hyperactivity. I have periodic limb movement disorder, which causes me to twitch and kick in the night. Some nights are worse than others. Lately, I’ve been eating M&Ms in the evening, and the kicking has been pretty bad. It makes me wonder if the dyes make the kicking worse. I didn’t realize peas had dyes, too. I’ll have to check out your link.
Your daughter looks like a sweetie eating her peas. I hope we get our rabbit fencing up to get some peas before the rabbits find the plants.