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Is food coloring safe for parrots or not?

I started making a foraging toy for our Cockatoo…. I sprinkled red food coloring on it and my husband was like
“NO!!! THAT’S BAD! IT WILL KILL HIM!!!!”
So, I threw out the paper I had dyed. I’m not understanding what I can or can’t use because I am getting contradictory information.

Does anyone know what is and isn’t safe for dyes?
PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR REFERENCES
(Preferrably a website…)

Thanks everyone!
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Well that is really interesting!
Red food dye always gets bad wraps… very neat result.

Hi at last you can say honey I love ya but be quiet lol your wrong… I make most of my birds toys myself and I use food dyes I put water then add the dye roll your toy in it.. let it sit a day or so then give it to him I did alot of research myself so I would know what I could use and hands down it is what is used to dye wood and other toy parts… Have fun ….

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