Cochineal is the name of the insect and the red dye that is made from it ... Fiber artists around the world still use cochineal as a dye. As a dye, the female cochineal insect is harvested ...

Joseph Borzelleca published a study on the food coloring Red No. 3. The FDA cited his work when banning the additive in ...

Of all the substances on Earth, very few can make rich, soulful red ... we commonly use. The extract of cochineal tends to come up a lot. The cochineal bugs—a species of scale insect—are ...

You made your own colorful dye out of crushed bugs and water! The cochineal (koh-chin-eel) bug ... red dyes that could compare for vividness and endurance, and for a time cochineal was Mexico’s second ...

Some manufacturers have already reformulated products to remove Red 3. In its place they use beet juice; carmine, a dye made from insects; or pigments from foods such as purple sweet potato ...

Since we do not want to use the real acid from bug bites, we will substitute vinegar ... materials toward the middle of the scale. Cochineal dye is orange when it’s in an acidic environment, red when ...

The FDA has banned the use of a synthetic red dye used in oral medicines, as well as foods and dietary supplements, more than 30 years after it was linked to cancer, after a citizen's petition was ...