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Kraft Foods has announced that by 2016 Kraft Dinner will be made without artificial dyes.

The company has been under considerable pressure since an online petition urging Kraft to remove the artificial colours Yellow 5 and 6 from its cheese sauce gathered more than 350,000 signatures.

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Canadians love Kraft Dinner. The average Canuck eats 3.2 boxes of the cheesy comfort food each year, according to The Walrus. And some hardcore KD fans were outraged to learn that the company plans to mess with its iconic recipe. But will the change really make much of a difference to the taste and appearance of KD?

The Kraft Foods sister company Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods Inc.) already sells a dye-free version of KD called Cheesey Pasta in the U.K. The recipe is almost exactly the same, but the artificial dye has been replaced with paprika and beta-Carotene. The National Post imported a few boxes of Cheesey Pasta to find out if there’s a discernible difference between the two recipes. Watch the video above to find out the results.