Medically reviewed by Corinne Savides Happel, MD Yellow 5, also known as tartrazine or FD&C yellow #5, is a synthetic yellow food dye suspected of being linked to health problems ranging from ...

Food colouring and other additives derived from coal tar have come in for some bad press recently. Hugh Westbrook delves into the issues surrounding tartrazine, saccharine and other ingredients ...

Although we generally assume that opacity is the normal look for animals like us humans, this factoid is only correct for as long as you maintain the dissimilar optical refraction indices of skin ...

Dr. Zihao Ou, assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Dallas, holds a vial of the common yellow food coloring tartrazine in solution. In an article published in Science, Ou ...