Popular rainbow candy just got a major ingredient change as Skittles drops additive

A candy institution has removed an constituent from its fashionable and colorful rainbow candies.

Skittles, owned by Mars Wrigley, volition nary longer beryllium made with titanium dioxide.

A spokesperson for Mars Wrigley, which is based successful New Jersey, confirmed to Fox News Digital this week that the institution has removed titanium dioxide from its Skittles portfolio successful the United States.

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Titanium dioxide is an additive typically utilized to make food look whiter and opaque.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, chaired by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a study past Thursday assessing chronic diseases, particularly those suffered by children.

Skittles volition nary longer beryllium made with titanium dioxide, the institution confirmed. (Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images)

The study listed additives of imaginable concern, including titanium dioxide.

It said the additive is "widely utilized successful a scope of candies and sauces [and] whitethorn origin cellular and DNA damage."

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"Our committedness to prime is what has enabled Mars to beryllium enjoyed by consumers for implicit a century, and thing is much important than the information of our products," the Mars Wrigley spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Titanium dioxide is an additive typically utilized to marque nutrient look whiter and opaque. A Mars Wrigley spokesperson said it is nary longer an constituent successful Skittles. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

"All our products are harmless to bask and conscionable the precocious standards and applicable regulations acceptable by food safety authorities astir the world, and that's thing we volition ne'er compromise on."

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There are 4,362 candies containing titanium dioxide, according to a hunt of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) FoodData Central website. 

There are 4,362 candies containing titanium dioxide, according to the FDA's FoodData Central website. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The European Union banned the additive successful 2022 pursuing a study by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which pointed to genotoxicity. 

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"Genotoxicity refers to the quality of a chemic substance to damage DNA, the familial worldly of cells," the EFSA study noted. 

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Experimental carnal inhalation studies with titanium dioxide by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found the substance to beryllium a "possible carcinogenic to humans."