Tanora’s changing taste a question of colour

TANORA drinkers, brace yourselves. The reason for the recent reformulation of a drink that for decades, like Tayto, has featured in hampers sent by desolate Rebel mammies to their exiled offspring, is a link to hyperactivity.

The truth about the taste change in the tangerine-flavoured drink finally emerged when Coca-Cola yesterday confirmed to the Irish Examiner that the colourant Quinoline Yellow has been scratched from the original, ancient recipe.

The colourant, a yellow food dye, is already banned in several European countries as well as in the US. In Britain, the Hyperactive Children’s Support Group recommends it be eliminated from children’s diets.