The colorful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside ...

A precious ancient scarlet-red dye has been identified on 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were found in a desert cave. The rare textiles, which consist of uncolored linen and dyed bright red ...

The insects are small, so it takes roughly 70,000 insects to make a pound of dye. But the dye is commercially available. Here in our area, you can step back in history by just going outside!

The study from IISc found a previously unidentified yeast-like symbiont inside the lac insect Kerria lacca, which gives the ...

The insects are small, so it takes roughly 70,000 insects to make a pound of dye. But the dye is commercially available. Here in our area, you can step back in history by just going outside!

Besides Red No. 40, another alternative might be carmine, a natural red dye made from the ground Cochineal bug, which primarily lives in South and Central America.

Red dye No. 3 has been banned, but what about other artificial food dyes? ... a dye made from insects; or pigments from foods such as purple sweet potato, radish and red cabbage.