{"id":1429669,"date":"2025-07-26T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429669"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:46:40","slug":"blue-bell-ice-cream-to-eliminate-artificial-food-dyes-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429669","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bell Ice Cream to eliminate artificial food dyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/blue-bell-police-investigation-into-viral-ice-cream-licker-video-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-801055\" \/>TYLER \u2013 On Monday, Blue Bell Creameries of Brenham announced that they\u2019re joining a nationwide effort to eliminate certified artificial colors from their ice cream by 2027. According to our news partner KETK, Blue Bell is joining other dairy companies in the International Dairy Foods Association\u2019s Ice Cream Commitment\u00a0to end the use of Red 3, Red 40, Green 3, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 by Dec. 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The IDFA said in press release,  \u201cAs national and state policies on artificial colors in food continue to change, ice cream makers are keeping pace by offering wholesome treats and snacks that families know and love.  Many commercial ice cream makers have already phased out certified artificial colors and many others are working with suppliers to phase them out by 2028 in compliance with this effort and other business considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue Bell\u2019s announcement noted the fact that many of their classic flavors like Cookies \u2018n Cream, Homemade Vanilla and Rocky Road already do not use artificial coloring. To learn more about all of their flavors and products, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebell.com\/our-products\/\">Blue Bell Creameries online<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 On Monday, Blue Bell Creameries of Brenham announced that they\u2019re joining a nationwide effort to eliminate certified artificial colors from their ice cream by 2027. According to our news partner KETK, Blue Bell is joining other dairy companies in the International Dairy Foods Association\u2019s Ice Cream Commitment\u00a0to end the use of Red 3, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Bell Ice Cream to eliminate artificial food dyes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1429694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/blue-bell-police-investigation-into-viral-ice-cream-licker-video-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 01:05:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/blue-bell-police-investigation-into-viral-ice-cream-licker-video-150x150.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429669"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430130,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429669\/revisions\/1430130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}