I Am a Vegetarian and I Heard About the Cochineal Bug Being Used in Dyes. Which Dyes Use the Cochineal Bug?
Question by Finn A: I am a vegetarian and I heard about the Cochineal Bug being used in dyes. which dyes use the Cochineal Bug?
I would like to know which dyes i need to watch out for.
Best answer:
Answer by sirima b
I never heard of cochineal made of bugs, if it is food coloring it is from one kind of fruit.
Answer by jareyn2002
Even though a full pound of cochineal sells for just $ 1.30, harvesting the bug earns enough money to feed and clothe a whole family in the impoverished highlands region of Peru. An estimated 40,000 Peruvian families depend on harvesting the bugs — which belong to a class of scale insects — to make a living.
In the late 1990s, a pound of the insects went for as much as $ 10, and city dwellers were poaching the insect on private property. Today, oversupply has pushed down prices.
Felimon Caniwa Wamani tells Kaste he’s a little worried that consumers in America and other nations of the “First World” will be put off by carmine once they realize the dye come from the guts of a bug. “It’s natural, nothing will happen to you, be calm,” he says into Kaste’s microphone — trying to soothe the queasy American consumers he imagines listening on the other end.
Peru’s cochineal-processing industry is growing more than 15 percent a year, but is similarly publicity-shy. Luis Carlos Vega is director of Globe Natural, a company that processes cochineals in Lima. He admits some people he’s met are surprised to know the source of the red color in their food and cosmetics.
Tropicana Is Bugging Your Juice
Like many people who read labels on products, Shari Feinberg was shocked to find that Tropicana was “bugging” her grapefruit juice.
When Shari purchased her Tropicana Season’s Best Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice last month, she learned the ingredient that gave the beverage its bright red color was carmine. Carmine is derived from the cochineal beetle, a scale insect that is crushed to create this red dye.
Shari’s shock led to a phone call to the company. She told the representative, “I don’t want to drink crushed insect bodies in my juice. I asked why they couldn’t use something like beet juice instead. The nice lady in customer relations took down my comments and said she’d pass them along.”
When VIP called Tropicana ( a division of Pepsico) to ask for a list of juices that contained cochineal or carmine, the representative was surprised to learn that both were derived from insects. She said the company had no list of juices that contained these colors. She advised us to read the labels and that all ingredients were clearly indicated on those labels.
A spot check at a local supermarket revealed another juice that had been “bugged.” Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Strawberry is “made from fresh oranges, not concentrate, 100% pure squeezed orange juice with calcium and strawberry and natural flavors and ingredients.”
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