Some Cheetos and Doritos won't have their bright color anymore

Some Cheetos and Doritos volition look a small antithetic soon. 

Starting successful December, stores volition merchantability Simply NKD versions of the fashionable snack that person nary artificial flavors oregon dyes — meaning nary agleam orangish color, PepsiCo announced Thursday.

The determination comes pursuing a propulsion by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to get escaped of synthetic nutrient dyes successful the nation's nutrient supply. The Food and Drug Administration asked the manufacture to halt utilizing dyes successful April, but stopped abbreviated of banning them. 

For Cheetos and Doritos, the archetypal versions volition inactive beryllium disposable successful summation to the caller options. 

"NKD is an additive option, not a replacement, introduced to conscionable user demand," CEO of PepsiCo Foods U.S. Rachel Ferdinando said successful a statement.

Doritos Nacho food (left) pictured adjacent to caller Simply NKD Nacho Cheese (right). Brielle Patton, D3 Studio

The institution besides promises the spirit volition beryllium the same. 

"We are reinventing our iconic — and astir celebrated — brands to present options with the bold flavors fans cognize and love, present reimagined without immoderate colors oregon artificial flavors," Hernán Tantardini, CMO of PepsiCo Foods U.S., said.

The NKD postulation volition motorboat with 4 flavors: Doritos Simply NKD Nacho Cheese, Doritos Simply NKD Cool Ranch and Cheetos Simply NKD Flamin' Hot.

They volition beryllium disposable successful stores starting Dec. 1, PepsiCo said.

Other companies, including Kraft Heinz, person pledged to region artificial dyes from their U.S. products. And immoderate states, specified arsenic West Virginia, person banned them.

The propulsion to region dyes stems from concerns they inflate the depletion of unhealthy foods and rise the hazard of imaginable behavioral changes successful immoderate children, specified arsenic hyperactivity, sleeplessness and inattention.

The nutrient dye manufacture has denied immoderate information concerns with artificial dyes. 

And immoderate doctors accidental nutrient dyes are not the biggest menace to our health. 

"The wellness risks truly airy successful examination with the wellness risks of the added salt, sweetener and abdominous successful processed food," Dr. Celine Gounder, a CBS News aesculapian contributor and editor-at-large for nationalist wellness astatine KFF Health News, said successful July.

Edited by Stephen Smith

Sara Moniuszko and Alexander Tin contributed to this report.