I’m drinking a Diet A&W Root Bear right now. First ingredient listed? Caramel coloring! I done for. Ack! Ack ack!
“POSSIBLE” cancer risk is the money word. It’s kind of like they thought cyclamate would be a likely cancer provoking substance because of the shape of its molecule, yet epidemiological studies showed it to be no riskier than saccharin. You still can’t get cyclamate in the USA, but you can in Canada.