<Tr> <Th> Tan </Th> <Td> Caramel (cube) </Td> <Td> Caramel </Td> <Td> David Cross </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Brown </Th> <Td> Pretzel (symmetrical) </Td> <Td> Pretzel Guy </Td> <Td> Maurice LaMarche </Td> </Tr> <P> The original colors of M&M's candies were red, yellow, violet, green and orange . </P> <P> In 1976, the Food and Drug Administration released a study that linked red dye 2 in food coloring to cancer . Though Mars did not use this dye, they decided to pull the red M&M's from the market to avoid possible misunderstandings . The red candy were reintroduced to the market ten years later . </P>

What were the original color of m&m's