9 Foods Made With Crushed Bugs
Starbucks has announced they are reviewing alternative food dyes to cochineal (aka crushed bugs). But a Strawberry Frap isn’t the only food you’ve eaten colored by crushed bugs.
2. Nerds Candy
“Thank you for contacting Wonka® Nerds®.
Carmine is a coloring agent extracted from the female cochineal insect. The insects are collected from prickly pear cactus plants primarily in South America and Europe.”
3. Ocean Spray Ruby-Red Grapefruit Juice
Source: http://www.labelwatch.com/product_pop.php?id=2484
And you thought the ruby red came from grapefruits.
4. Strawberry Yoplait
Source: http://www.livestrong.com/article/281719-what-are-the-ingredients-in-yoplait-yogurt/
5. Dannon Yogurt
Source: http://www.labelwatch.com/product_pop.php?id=7189
Yogurt and bugs apparently go well together.
6. Dole’s Fruit-in-Gel Snacks
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/avantgo/2017852081.html
7. SoBe Courage (Discontinued)
8. Kellogg’s Yogos Island Explosion Fruit Snacks
9. Mango Snapple
Source: http://cookingwithwildtree.com/2011/03/12/mystery-ingredients-whats-really-in-your-food/
Made from the best stuff on Earth? Seriously, Snapple thinks crushed bugs are the best thing on Earth.
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FlickMontana a year ago“Natural color.” “Red number 4”
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Charles Renfield a year agoI’d rather eat a bug than chemical compounds made in a lab that will do God knows what to your body. The bug is just digested as any other food.
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AdventureNeckbeard a year agoI will still continue to buy #1, and eat #2 cause them some delicious bugs right there.
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michaelr42 a year agoOcean Spray juice only one of concern to me. Already vegan and already pass on all these others. Thanks for the info.
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