So prized was its vivid color, the dried beetles were once more valuable than ... as a move away from artificial red food coloring. Vegans cried foul and the company eventually changed its recipes.

The International Association of Colour ... Red E120, which is a natural additive made from the cochineal beetle. Natural alternatives are common in Australia, adds RMIT associate professor in ...

Starbucks' use of crushed beetles in food coloring for its frappuccino products—which it had labeled vegan—is merely the tip of the iceberg. The cochineal beetle, often used in red food dyes ...

Europeans immediately took to the beautiful, bright scarlet color both for ... cochineal is a safe food colorant aside from a few rare cases of allergic reaction. Another red dye used in foods ...

Starbucks will stop using a red food dye ... term "natural color" on ingredients lists. But because cochineal provokes severe allergic reactions in some people, the Food and Drug Administration ...

A California law outlawed the ingredient at foods served in public schools. Red Dye No. 40, a synthetic food dye that's used to achieve a bright crimson color in condiments and candy alike, has ...

systemically dyed the flowers of a white-petalled oilseed rape variety using food colouring solutions that were taken up by the roots of the plant. They assessed the attractiveness of the plants to ...

Red 3 – also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or E127 – has been widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals ... Preparing homemade foods with natural color alternatives like beet ...

and there are a growing number of natural red colouring alternatives that don't come from insects. Look for the word "carmine" on a food product that contains it, and you might not actually see it ...