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The surprising source of some red food coloring

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That vibrant ruby hue in your favorite strawberry yogurt or red velvet cake likely comes from a rather unappetizing source. Carmine, a globally approved natural food coloring, is extracted directly by boiling and aggressively crushing thousands of pregnant scale insects known as cochineal bugs to harvest their vividly colored internal carminic acid.

The surprising source of some red food coloring
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