Sweet Agaric

The past couple of days I spent on this project. It began with something I saw on Pinterest. There was a picture of kids painting with M&M's. They put them in a bowl with water and the water got the color of the M&M's and the candies themselves turned white. As you can see in the picture. I found this really interesting and wanted to know more about the dyes. This is what I found on Wikipedia:

Red M&M's currently contain Allura Red AC (FD&C Red #40, E129). In Europe, Allura Red AC is not recommended for consumption by children. It is banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Norway.[10] Instead, Cochineal (E120) is used in the red shells.
Allura Red AC is a red azo dye that goes by several names including: Allura Red, Food Red 17, C.I. 16035, FD&C Red 40.
In Europe, Allura Red AC is not recommended for consumption by children. It is banned in Denmark, Belgium, France and Switzerland, and was also banned in Swedenuntil the country joined the European Union in 1994.[11] The European Union approves Allura Red AC as a food colorant, but EU countries' local laws banning food colorants are preserved.[12] In Norway, it was banned between 1978 and 2001, a period in which azo dyes were only legally used in alcoholic beverages and some fish products.[13]
In the United States, Allura Red AC is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in cosmetics, drugs, and food. It is used in some tattoo inks and is used in many products, such as soft drinks, children's medications, and cotton candy. On June 30, 2010, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) called for the FDA to ban Red 40. Executive Director Michael Jacobson said, "These synthetic chemicals do absolutely nothing to improve the nutritional quality or safety of foods, but trigger behavior problems in children and, possibly, cancer in anybody."[14]

The red dye apparently isn't that good for you, to illustrate that I arranged the props as a fly agaric, which also is not recommended for consumption.