cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything from clothes to pottery. But it wasn't until more recently ...

and Mexico’s cochineal farms are disappearing. More from Big Business Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles ...

baking soda in 1 cup of water (label “Baking Soda”). Set up three small cups or bowls as “dye pots.” Mark cups as “Cochineal Dye”, “Vinegar and Cochineal Dye,” and “Baking Soda and Cochineal Dye.” Add ...

But if you are a fiber arts person, you might have worked with the dye made from this insect. And if you have eaten a product that lists carmine as an ingredient, you have tasted it. Cochineal’s ...

Ancient fragments of fabric colored with red dye were found in a desert cave ... "This superfamily includes species such as Kermes, cochineal, and lac-insects…all of which were well-known ...

Let’s investigate! To track what is happening with the acid, we will use an indicator that is made from natural, cochineal dye (which has been extracted from the body of a female cochineal insect).

Food dye allergies are rare ... Carmine, also referred to as cochineal extract or natural red 4, comes from dried bugs. It has been used in food since the 16th century. It’s also found in ...

The extract of cochineal tends to come up a lot. The cochineal bugs—a species of scale insect—are a centuries-old colorant. In the 19th century, chemists figured out how to make a synthetic ...

You'd never guess by their whitish-grey outsides, but the bodies of these little critters, called cochineal insects ... cheap alternative to synthetic red dye. To make it, workers grind up ...

cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything from clothes to pottery. But it wasn't until more recently ...

kermes and cochineal contain somewhat larger derivatives, mostly carminic and laccaic acid. In principle, the structures and proportions of these components can reveal the origin of the dye ...