Are you checking your child's food for these hyper colours?

According to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), more food businesses are stepping up to remove food colours associated with possible hyperactivity in children.

Debenhams, is one of the restaurants now ensuring that all food served up in restaurants will be free of the colours.

Identified in a Southampton University study financed by the FSA, the colours for parents to avoid are:

Sunset yellow FCF (E110)
Quinoline yellow (E104)
Carmoisine (E122)
Allura red (E129)
Tartrazine (E102)
Ponceau 4R (E124)

The FSA hopes that more food businesses will voluntarily ban these colours from their products in future and parents should continue to check food labels, especially ones with a long shelf life.