Some bugs are in our food because, well, we put them there. If you think it's fruit that turns this strawberry yogurt red ... to make. I mean, it's easier to just make a chemical dye, and this ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.

(Crushing bugs also creates an allergen because of other bug parts that end up in the dye ... make, and red clothing was mostly reserved for royalty (or, say, the Pope). In Peru, carmine had been ...

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

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

Some bugs are in our food because, well, we put them there. If you think it's fruit that turns this strawberry yogurt red ... to make. I mean, it's easier to just make a chemical dye, and this ...

If you are unfortunate enough to find a bug or anything else that shouldn ... Starbucks previously used to use cochineal, a red dye made from crushed beetles, in some of its drinks and food.