TIL that cochineal extract, also known as carmine or Natural Red 4 is a food dye made from crushed up bugs.

https://www.livescience.com/36292-red-food-dye-bugs-cochineal-carmine.html

It is used in Tropicana grapefruit juice and Dannin yogurt to name a couple big companies.

https://www.vegparadise.com/news13.html

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Acetamide@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

For people in the EU: anything with E120 in the list of ingredients contains cochineal extract.

buhala@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

The weird thing is it counts as vegan too!

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Now look into shellac, mmm