Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime. The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jellybeans. Candy Easter eggs can be any form of confectionery such as hollow chocolate eggs wrapped in brightly-colored foil. Some are delicately constructed of spun sugar and pastry decoration techniques. The ubiquitous jelly egg or jellybean is made from sugar-coated pectin candy. These are often hidden, supposedly by the Easter Bunny, for children to find on Easter morning.

It's time to take a look at what you eat with green-colored glasses. Do you have packages of processed food with long ingredient lists that resemble chemistry experiments? How compassionately produced were those eggs, that meat or those chicken breasts in your fridge? Are any of your vegetables organic or locally grown?

Tests conducted on chicken and duck eggs in Vietnam show large quantities of a cancer-causing colorant. The director of Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Health, Nguyen The Dung, said on Sunday that he did not deny the reports but "we are running the tests again and will not announce anything now."