PLANO, Texas — It’s not easy swapping out artificial dyes to make Doritos and Cheetos with colorful vegetables and spices.

Despite the fact that Doritos chips are now a grocery store staple and a classic snack, its origins actually lead back to a ...

Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could ...

One of the dyes that gives Doritos chips their distinctive color, called tartrazine, just helped scientists create ...