Nina Lewis

Doctors, health nutritionists, and moms everywhere encourage us to eat our vegetables. The more color on your plate, the better. Diversity in colorful foods provide your body with a wide variety of essential vitamins and minerals that will fight cancer, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, fight harmful radicals, and build healthy bones.

Recently, the U.S Food and Drug Administration formed the Confectionery and Non-Nutritional Delicacy Yearnings research group (known as C.A.N.D.Y) to investigate the nutritional value in connection to color.

Want increased health? Want color on your dinner plate? Then follow these C.A.N.D.Y. suggestions.

Red
The best items in the red category are cinnamon bears and red-hot tamales. The hotter the better. Burn, baby, burn! Swedish fish may also fill your red requirement but are not as beneficial because they do not have any incendiary capabilities.

Yellow and Orange
Examples of appropriate yellow foods include banana Runts, lemon drops, and Easter baby marshmallow chicks. (However, Easter baby marshmallow chicks taste pukey so you really don’t need to worry about including them in your diet.)

Orange food items include peach rings, pumpkin shaped marshmallow crèmes and orange jellybeans. (When taken in conjunction with black jellybeans at Halloween time, the potency of orange jellybeans is doubled. It’s good that Halloween is just around the corner . . .)

You can kill two birds with one stone by eating candy corn. You’ll get both your yellow and orange minimum daily requirements in one mouthful. It’s best to eat as much of these candies as possible during October since candy corn is out of season the rest of the year. Your body can easily store the nutritional benefits from candy corn throughout the off-season.

Blue and Purple
While it is rather difficult to find items in this color category, gummy sharks can fill this color requirement. Don’t despair if you do not include this color into your diet. Most people don’t like a blue tongue and blue lips that come from eating too much of this color.

Eating gummy bears, gummy worms, and Jelly Bellies are all-around general-purpose foods. You can fill your requirements for many of the food colors just by eating these nutritional delights. However, because there is such a wide assortment of colors, the color density is limited. You’ll need to ingest at least two pounds of these food items at mealtime to fill your daily color requirements.

We’d like to thank C.A.N.D.Y. for their current research findings. This is your tax dollars hard at work.

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