MelissaA
Brenton
Shilpa Karhik
FOOD COLOURING FRIGHT!!!
August 31st 2008 11:30
Next time you visit the pantry or go out to eat you may want to consider this little tidbit of information. In some food products, and even shampoos, the reddish colouring is produced by the crushing of the tropical Cochineal beetle. That's right, beetles!
So next time have a look out for the ingredient cochineal in whatever you happen to have a craving for!
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
actually, while on the matter of bugs, I used some of the last "salmon" colour gel, used in stage lighting, to colur/soften light on stage, and it was made from a South American bug too, it produced a salmonyoily coulr, a bit irredescent, very groovy, very expensive, and very labour intensive, so hard to make that they stopped producing it just before 1980, when I, and my now very famous cohort, used the last pieces of salmon left for a production we did together... oh and there was a theatre ghost involved, I should do a post on this some time..
there, I bet that made your day... ahem.. well it was all I could think of or remember...
cheers
fog
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