Color Marker on Toothpaste

Oh I almost got fooled big time this morning! I never noticed the color marker on my tube of toothpaste, until I read about it on Facebook this morning. Go ahead, when you get home tonight, look at your tube of toothpaste. There's a red, a green, blue, or black marker on your toothpaste. In 54 years, I don't think I ever noticed it until today!

So according to the post on Facebook, the color of your stripe is supposed to indicate the composition of your toothpaste

Green: natural;
Blue : Natural + Medicine;
Red : Natural + Chemical composition;
Black : pure chemical.

I'm telling everyone at work. This is amazing! My coworkers are amazed.. They've never noticed it before! So then I Google it, just to get my info correct and up pops a post from Snopes.com

According to Snopes.com

Those colored squares on the crimps of those tubes have nothing to do with the formulation of the toothpaste inside. They're an artifact of the manufacturing process known as "eye marks" or "color marks," printed marks that can be read by light beam sensors and typically identify where product packaging is to be cut or folded as connected units stream through machinery at high speed: