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Elimination diet initially devised by Benjamin Feingold
The Feingold diet is an elimination diet initially devised by Benjamin Feingold following research in the 1970s that appeared to link food additives with hyperactivity; by eliminating these additives and various foods the diet was supposed to alleviate the condition. Popular in its day, the diet has since been referred to as an "outmoded treatment"; there is no good evidence that it is effective, were eliminated. Besides foods with the eliminated additives, aspirin or additive containing drugs and toiletries were to be avoided. Even today, parents are advised to limit their purchases of mouthwash, toothpaste, cough drops, perfume, and various other nonfood products to those published in the Feingold Association's annual Foodlist and Shopping Guide.

Although the diet had a certain popular appeal, a 1983 meta analysis found research on it to be of poor quality, and that overall there was no good evidence that it was effective in fulfilling its claims. In common with other elimination diets, the Feingold diet can be costly and boring, and thus difficult for people to maintain. In general, there is no evidence to support broad claims that food coloring causes food intolerance and ADHD like behavior in children. It is possible that certain food coloring may act as a trigger in those who are genetically predisposed, but the evidence is weak.

For decades, the Feingold Program required a significant change in family lifestyle because families were limited to a narrow selection of foods. Such foods were sometimes expensive or had to be prepared "from scratch," greatly increasing the amount of time and effort a family must put into preparing a meal. As more and more foods without the potentially offending additives are being produced and available in neighborhood supermarkets, this is much less a problem.