Why Some Food Coloring is Made of Bugs
When you record the ingredients recording label on the back of a bottle of juice , you plausibly mechanically divide them into recognizable ingredient — like fruit and vegetables — and more mysterious compounds , like “ cochineal , ” “ carminic back breaker , ” or “ Natural Red 4 . ” Most of us do n’t put too much intellection into the more cryptic ingredients in our foods , but some of those mystery compounds in reality have a surprising reservoir — bugs ....