My first response would be, don’t feed it to your children. You can make a better mac and cheese yourself with a little butter and grated cheese.
But I’ve had kids and I know how they like the Kraft stuff. I also know how convenient the Kraft is, especially if you’ve got other tots running around.
Still, I think I’ll do my little own personal boycott as well as join your effort.
Aspartame. Shees. Totally unnecessary. AND it makes you fart.

Wow interesting article haha I am glad I don’t eat mac and cheese anymore! KRAFT IS BAD all around

You are correct in that we need to let our food makers go more natural for us. Of course, we need to do our part by not buying the product in the first place. Changing the kid’s diets is going to take a while, but I believe moms and dads are trying to make a good change for themselves. It is a family affair! I like to make my own stuff anyway. It is not hard to do, except I think the cheese industry needs to help us out by going more natural. Artificial stuff sometimes make a strange bedfellow?! Lots of thought and love should go into our kids, don’t you think? Nancy Roberts.

If you don’t have the time to make your own macaroni and cheese,
There is an alternative, if you can afford to do so.
The company “Annies” makes several mac n cheese varieties. All of them are organic, without artificial colors, flavorings or preservatives.
They have a cute bunny on the box, and my daughter likes it.

That’s why I don’t eat Kraft Mac & Cheese!!! It doesn’t even taste all that great to begin with..blech!!

wow!!! I know alot of package stuff is bad, and as a whole we do alot of home cooking in our household, however my 5yr old nephew is EXTREMELY picky eater and one of the things he eats alot of is the craft mac and cheese, has to be the spiral… and if some of u are skeptical as to the truth of this, my 5 yr old nephew is hyperactive as well as asthmatic… wow ok well no more mac and cheese of that kind, but now i need to find something else for him to eat…thank you ever sooo much for this artible I will be reading urs from now on…

My son too was hyperactive until i read the book. The Feingold diet. red dye surely was a big culprit as well as artificial preservatives. Has anyone noticed that kraft is a whole DOLLAR higher than any other mac and cheese?! with that money they could skip some advertising and make it better! anyway, after i got my son eating more whole foods/ 75 percent and still had some of the other stuff, his grades in first grade went up and away and his over activity down. It’s amazing how starved his brain was and his body even though well fed. These additives should be severely limited in food. i know preservatives are necessary for shelf life. It’s just sad that it’s all come down to this and for over 60 years this stuff has been in and added to our food.

Your link to the Kraft foods executive is not working. Do you have a verifiable way of contacting Kraft about this issue. I am more than willing to contact them if I have the right source to do so. Thanks, KV

This is trash: fear mongering without obviously researching all the information. I think this writter only read the articles she agreed with. people, puh-leeze don’t blindly buy in to everything you read. RESEARCH for yourself and make truly informed decisions. Do you still believe that child vaccinations contribute to autism? And just because Europe does something doesn’t mean you should too. Once upon a time Europe thought thalidomide was safe for pregnant women.
I don’t eat Kraft Mac & Cheese because I prefer to eat organic as possible, not because of yellow #5.

please remove uneeded collerings and chemicals from your mac and cheese and other products sold in the United States as you do for the European countries who buy your products.

Pam,

You and others like you are clueless. You tell people who have first hand experienced improvements in there childrens lives, and you tell them they’re not doing the proper research. I have personally seen what happens when you remove some of these things from childrens diets. And I’ve seen what happens when you put them back in. In the future, please try to comment on topics about which you have some knowledge.

i have twin girls with autism. one of them, a few years ago, wouldnt eat at all, gagging at the smell of certain foods, and lived off of pediasure prescribed by a doctor. now she is eating and growing normally, but one of the very few foods she will eat (and her twin sister with autism also will eat) is macaroni and cheese. i always expected kraft to hold a higher standard in food quality, guess i was too trusting in name brands. i tried clicking the link to send an email (in the article) but because i have web based email the link was no good. is there a direct email address that i can write? if i just do it through customer service i know i will be given the run around and my email wont make any differance. thank you to anyone that can help, and i definately wont be serving my kids boxed mac and cheese until this is fixed.

what is Yellow#5?

There may be something to what Taylor is saying here, but the article doesn’t say what it is specifically in the Kraft Mac and Cheese that is of concern. I read the article carefully and it never actually mentions which chemicals are present in this product.

Just want to be clear as to what the title of the article says and what it actually says in the article.

Why should we buy mac & cheese? Lazy Americans!

WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO BEG FOR HEALTHY FOOD FOR OUR CHILDREN!

How digusting. Just one more negative thing fromBIG CORPORATION AMERICA. They absoltely care nothing about the American people. They are only out for money (BILLION dollar money. HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR THEM!!!

I have a grandson that loves mac and cheese. He has asthma and we had no idea that mac and chesse could affect him. Why can Kraft not treat Americans as well as they do other countries? It seems a shame for a company to keep putting ingredients in their products that cause harm to people who trust their company enough to buy their products no questions asked.

i have 4kids and they have been eating mac and chess 4over16yrs.and geuss what 2of my kids got asthma our family will no longer be eating or buying your product any longer

th that’s not fair. Kraft should do the same for all states,countries,continents,etc.all across the board.

I just can’t believe that this kind of thing can go on here in AMERICA. You say your an AMERICAN company but you don’t value our health over EUROPE. Who the hell are they. I have two children 10 and 13 they have been eating Kraft mac & cheese their whole life and they both have asthma and my 13 yr old also is considered ADD.

No more Kraft mac & cheese for them. I will only buy the one made with real cheese. Like I did before my children.

This is an outrage.