The effect was so staggering that the small outbreak soon made its way into the medical literature in an article titled Benign Red Pigmentation Of Stool Resulting From Food Coloring In A New Breakfast Cereal. (Best quote: "The stool had no abnormal odor but looked like strawberry ice cream.") As it turned out, the culprit was food coloring, Red No. 2 and No. 3, which couldn't be broken down by the body, hence its rather ... dramatic exit. But it wasn't just Franken Berry -- other Monster Cereals were also dyeing kid's insides. Booberry's Blue No. 1 was turning kid's poop green, but that didn't distress parents as much as Franken Berry's red. Unfortunately, it is impossible to determine whether people eating Count Chocula were experiencing a similar problem
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