Overview

• A Mars Wrigley spokesperson confirmed that Skittles candies sold in the United States have not contained titanium dioxide since late 2024.
• The Make America Healthy Again Commission’s May 2025 report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., identified titanium dioxide as a potential genotoxic risk.
• The European Union banned titanium dioxide as a food additive in 2022 after the European Food Safety Authority concluded it could no longer be considered safe.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration still permits titanium dioxide in foods at levels up to 1 percent of product weight, and more than 4,300 candies in its database contain the additive.
• Mars Wrigley plans to phase out other synthetic dyes in Skittles, including Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1, by the end of 2026.