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Yeah, erythrosine (red #3) is banned in many countries, with an EU exception for its use in cocktail cherries. Red #40 is commonly used instead though, even in countries like the US where red #3 is legal.Had this topic in Culinary School. It's crazy, yes, those are Cherries. But they literally get bleached into oblivion (they turn literally Albino), then getting another chemical water bad to get rid of the acid & then get that colour with something that is considered questionable healthwise. It's called Erythrosin if I remember it correctly.
The dye isn't the only artificial ingredient in those cherries, though. You're not even tasting a real cherry. Chemists have come up with a whole cocktail of different compounds that they combine to make stuff taste like cherries.