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While the dye is a carcinogen, it does not penetrate the orange peel into the pulp.That's all the information I have for now. Wikipedia has this to say about the dye:Īs a food dye, it is permitted by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1956 only for use in the United States to color the skin of oranges. That dye is prohibited in California, where Cuties come from. The color you see is a natural occurrence."At Little Locavores, I found that there is a food dye approved for use on oranges - Citrus Red No. This is their reply: Thank you for your inquiry.

"I went to the source-Cuties themselves and posed the question. One enterprising reader of that blog contacted the company: I found one blog post addressing the curious color of the inside of these oranges, at The Scientist Gardener. Clementine mandarins are harvested from mid-October through mid-January Murcott mandarins from mid-January through April.The website and the product fact sheet make no mention of artificial dyes the only notation on the package label refers to wax on the external surface. Apparently the bag I purchased must have been Murcott mandarins:Ĭalifornia Cuties are actually two different fruits: Clementine mandarins and Murcott mandarins. The company's website reports that there are two types of "Cuties". I think it was dyed.") I replied that the albedo and central column of the oranges I was eating was white.īut last week while at the store I grabbed a bag mandarin oranges (brand name "Cuties") and noticed that the inside of the peel was, in fact, a brilliant orange color (I'm not sure if the photos above quite reproduce the intensity of the color). In the comment thread, MaraK reported encountering a Clementine whose inner pulp was orange ("Like, fake-orange. Last month I posted a bit of trivia about detecting the ripeness of oranges.