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Beetle Juice

  • Writer: Ben
    Ben
  • Oct 22, 2022
  • 1 min read

The common Red food color E120 or "Carmine" is extracted from a body liquid of an insect named "cochineal scale".

The insects are grind to a powder, and than boiled with few other elements to reach the right color and texture.

Bon apatite!





Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal

 
 
 

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