Watch out for the use of this ingredient in your food if you're a vegetarian! This dye, that is a deep red in colour, called carmine (also known as Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120) is used in many foods to make them red.
What's wrong with red you ask? Well it's made from carminic acid which is derived from the scales of some small insects! So vegetarians beware this is approved in the U.S. (and Canada presumably) as foodstuffs and is used in candy, yogurt, icing, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
What's wrong with red you ask? Well it's made from carminic acid which is derived from the scales of some small insects! So vegetarians beware this is approved in the U.S. (and Canada presumably) as foodstuffs and is used in candy, yogurt, icing, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
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