deep purple-red color, and that's the source of cochineal, cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything ...

But today, Peru dominates the market, and Mexico’s cochineal farms ... Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles ...

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

The cochineal insect was brought to Europe by Spanish ... labour allowed Spain to maintain its monopoly on the valuable red dye. Before the conquistadors began the cochineal trade, achieving ...

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. Humans have used the insect to ...

Nearly 70,000 insects are just enough to make one pound of dye. The insects might appear whitish-grey on the outside, but inside their bodies are a deep purpley-red. Cochineal bugs sheath ...

The extracted dye from the female cochineal bugs is used to color foods ... carmine, carminic acid, Natural Red 4, or E120.

The FDA has banned Red Dye 3 in foods, drinks, and medications. Here’s a list of foods with Red Dye 3, possible health ...

You made your own colorful dye out of crushed bugs and water! The cochineal (koh-chin-eel ... The shell of the female cochineal contains a vibrant red chemical called carminic acid. Carminic acid's ...

You'd never guess by their whitish-grey outsides, but the bodies of these little critters, called cochineal ... synthetic red dye. To make it, workers grind up thousands of the tiny bugs.

They determined that the fabric's red dye was made from the dried bodies of a species of parasitic scale insect ... includes species such as Kermes, cochineal, and lac-insects…all of which ...

A common replacement for the dye is carmine, which is a red pigment made from cochineal insects which are parasites native to South America. Many companies have already switched to the natural ...