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It actually is. Several people I know have this issue, I think they're all autistic people or people with ADHD, so that may be related, just as a note.
I have ADHD and probably also the 'tism and I've never felt like hurting others or myself after eating sauce that happened to be red because it contained red ingredients. After eating anything, really, for that matter.
My son (diagnosed with the tsim but too young for his inevitable had diagnosis) gets very disregulated after eating items high in sugar or after having too much screen time. No clue why, he just becomes a little asshole and takes his energy out on the people and animals around him. Thankfully the screen time issue has gone down from "any" to more than 20-30 minutes so he can occasionally watch educational kids programming.
Count yourself lucky you don't have to deal with that. It's maddening at the best of times, especially when all the experts we talk to say we're already doing everything they recommended.....
I didn't say every autistic person or person with ADHD had this problem, that's not how it works. I'm just saying that anecdotally I know of this phenomenon, and have noticed a correlation with autism and ADHD.
My main point being that not every food that is red has artificial food dye in it.
That was not clear. Why is that your point? This post is specifically about one particular red dye that can cause behavioral symptoms.
The post is about sauce that happens to be red. The post cleverly avoids saying "food dye" and everybody just assumes it must be about food dye because of cultural context.
The post is in reference to this. https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-authorization-use-red-no-3-food-and-ingested-drugs
Listen, I know that the FDA in the US is banning that one type of red dye - even though I'm not from the US. That's how unavoidable the topic is if you're just a little too online. That's the cultural context. Now show me in the original post where it says "red dye".
In the title
The original original post.
I would note that the OP doesn’t talk about wanting to hurt people or intending to do it, just that they did. For a child that could easily be something like getting too excited and playing too roughly or acting impulsively in a way that winds up with them or someone else getting hurt.