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cochineal parasite

Meet the insect you probably didn’t know you were eating.

Posted by: Lolade in Metro life Comments Off on Meet the insect you probably didn’t know you were eating.

Here are 7 foods that contain the cochineal PARASITE for its color:

-Starbuck’s Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut, and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
-Kellogg’s Fruit Loops cereal and Fruit Snacks.
-Tropicana
-Betty Crocker’s red velvet cake mix
-Nesquik Chocolate Cookie Sandwich (Strawberry) and Nestle Wonka Nerds
-Skittles
-Dannon yogurt strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry flavors

Sidenote: It takes 40,000 of these bugs to create 1lb of carmine dye. 🤯

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