Popular Snack Brand Makes Big Change To Favorite Product Amid 'natural Source' Ingredients Push

A food and beverage institution will beryllium making a awesome constituent alteration to 1 of its astir beloved snacks. 

And nan hole comes conscionable up of this year's back-to-school season.

Welch's, headquartered successful Waltham, Massachusetts, announced this week it will region artificial dyes from its consequence snacks.

The ingredients will beryllium replaced pinch colors that travel from "natural sources," according to a Welch's news release.

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The rollout involves 3 spirit packs: Mixed Fruit, Berries 'n Cherries and Fruit Punch.

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan shaper of nan snacks, PIM Brands, for comment.

Three celebrated flavors of Welch's Fruit Snacks will beryllium without artificial dyes by nan clip students return to schoolhouse this year. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"This marks an important milestone successful Welch's Fruit Snacks' committedness to exclusively usage colors from earthy sources successful each products crossed nan portfolio by early 2026," according to nan release.

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Jason Levine, PIM Brands main trading officer, said consumers and their families are ever nan apical priority.

"The move to colors from earthy sources began complete a decade agone and is already reflected successful products launched since 2018," Levine said successful nan release.

Ingredients successful Welch's Fruit Snacks (not pictured) will beryllium replaced pinch colors that travel from "natural sources," according to nan company. (iStock)

"Just successful clip for back-to-school, we're proud to statesman rolling retired our best-selling flavors made without artificial dyes and without compromising connected nan things we cognize group emotion astir Welch's Fruit Snacks: real fruit and awesome taste."

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Welch's Mixed Fruit Snacks presently incorporate earthy and artificial flavors: annatto (color), turmeric (color), Red 40 and Blue 1.

The depletion of Red 40 successful nutrient products has been associated pinch expanding hyperactivity and perchance irritability successful children. (iStock)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced successful April that it will beryllium moving pinch manufacture leaders to destruct synthetic dyes from nan food supply by nan extremity of adjacent year.

Among nan dyes HHS is looking to get free of are Red 40 and Blue 1.

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Red 40 has been associated pinch expanding hyperactivity, perchance irritability, and much susceptibility to children, according to WebMD.

The ingredients alteration announcement comes conscionable successful clip for this year's back-to-school season, nan institution said.  (iStock)

Children diagnosed pinch Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) besides thin to beryllium much delicate to specified additives, per WebMD.