Food search and organization

dylan644 · Post by **dylan644** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:22 am

ifluctuate if you can give me a list of foods that contain Lycopene I will add a heading and a small description under your name.

CrabbieLover1031:D · Post by **CrabbieLover1031:D** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:23 am

So it IS safe? Thank you KEG!

dylan644 · Post by **dylan644** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:41 am

I just read that the food dye yellow 5 can cause people quite a few problems. http://www.associatedcontent.c..._yellow5_.html?cat=5I'm reading a lot of negative articles about that food dye so I would say no..... all I can tell you is that at the atomic level it has sulfur and salt!!lol!!!

Crabber85 · Post by **Crabber85** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:34 pm

No food dyes unfortunately as hermitcrabs process these things in much different way from us which can lead to the build up of these synthetic based dyes before the poor hermitcrab can flush them.Most people don't know this but several of the commercially available dyes on the market today get part of their pigmentation from heavy metals that are added to them such as copper for reds and oranges.The FDA says that these heavy metals present are in a small enough quantity so as not to pose a threat to humans but hermitcrabs are literally 100 times or so smaller than us so these safe concentrations may actually be way to high for them.

dylan644 · Post by **dylan644** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:44 pm

I was starting to get into stuff like that. I had to go down stairs to eat dinner so I wasn't able to finish my post. Thanks Crabber!!!!

Crabber85 · Post by **Crabber85** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:49 pm

No problem.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:32 pm

quote:Originally posted by CrabbieLover1031:So it IS safe? Thank you KEG! Sorry! I didn't mean to imply it was safe. Here's a link to the library that clearly votes no on dyes.http://landhermitcrabs.com/eve...4102988/m/5061088692

Nicole · Post by **Nicole** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:45 pm

*bump* for dylan to edit before archiving

dylan644 · Post by **dylan644** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:49 pm

Thanks Nicole looks good to me!