The insects have been linked to illnesses that can affect both humans and animals. Researchers raise red flags after finding ...

An established colony of invasive, stinging ants was detected in East Baton Rouge this month, marking the first confirmed ...

Replacing artificial colors in foods with algae, fruits and spices and achieving the same look and taste is challenging — and ...

Synthetic food dyes are added to 1 in 5 packaged foods and drinks sold by top U.S. food manufacturers, a new study says.

It’s an ongoing debate on TikTok: A couple wonders why one of them can smell ladybugs and the other can’t.. Below that video, one commenter notes that ants smell, too, like a “combo of ...

Every second, machines like drones, smartphones, and self-driving cars capture floods of visual data. But turning this data ...

Two major food producers say that they will be pulling artificial dyes from their U.S. products starting in 2027.

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

For centuries, a deep red dye, known as lac dye, has been harvested from tiny insects called lac insects. The dye is the resinous secretion of several species of lac insects, of which the most ...

Sun Drop lists yellow 5 as one of its ingredients, Cheerwine lists Red 40 as an ingredient in its nutrition information. In January, during the waning days of Joe Biden’s presidency, the Food and Drug ...

Most notably, G5-03 effectively decolorized Reactive Red 239 dye over wide pH (7-11) and temperature (25-40°C) ranges. The decolorization kinetics could be described by the Michaelis-Menten equation.

Insect criminals fall into three categories, Karner explains. There are the unwitting smugglers who don’t know about the complex red tape involved in collecting and transporting insects.