Cakes that you should avoid giving to your children

Rainbow cake & Red Velvet Cake

When come to selecting a birthday cakes for your family, especially your children; I hope that you would think twice if you are planning to buy a cake with very attractive color such as a rainbow cake or a red velvet cake. The reason is you need to add in heap of coloring in order to produce those cakes. Red velvet cake for instance, it is actually a chocolate cake often colored with almost 1 bottle of red coloring to make it appeared red! Although there are some people substituting the red coloring with natural ingredients such as beet root nowadays, it doesn't seems common here in Malaysia.

Nice looking rainbow cake is full of coloring

One piece of red velvet cake containing almost one bottle red coloring 

Instead, choose cakes with white color (color from the cream) or a chocolate cake. It is as delicious and much healthier choice. Fondant cake also looks nice and alright to eat except for the fondant which is basically sugar and coloring.

Research has associated food coloring with problems in children such as allergies, hyperactivity, learning impairment, irritability as well as aggressiveness. For some very sensitive children, they may even displaying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. This causes them not being able to  sit in a chair, paying attention, finishing school work, forgetful and not listening to others etc. Sound so familiar? So the next time we observe our children having these symptoms, we should find out what have we given them to eat recently :).