Texans, meet the cochineal—an insect used to dye some of your favorite red and pink foods. It’s natural, it’s tiny, and yes..

A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous. Cochineal—parasitic insects that ...

Color is powerful driver of consumer behavior and changes can backfire, Giusti noted. In 2016, food giant General Mills ...

As food companies face pressure to eliminate artificial dyes, experts weigh in on the natural alternatives that could replace ...

They include red No. 40 ... (A lake is a fat-soluble version of a dye.) Cochineal dyes are from the tiny dried and crushed bodies of female cochineal insects mostly and easily harvested from ...