The dye, known for its bright cherry-red color, is found in candies, snack cakes, maraschino cherries, and some beverages.

Yes, there are in fact strawberries in there, but they're there for flavor and texture, not color. That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs.

Thirty other patients had negative patch test results. Carmine is a widely used pigment derived from gravid cochineal insects. Carminic acid is the source of its color. Only two previous ...

The resulting color has a cool quality. On a color wheel, it sits closer to a purple than a carmine red (once made from beetles). The opposite effect can be said of turquoise, which runs slightly ...

The decision arrives nearly 35 years after the dye was prohibited in cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.

Some food manufacturers have already reformulated products to remove Red 3. In its place they use beet juice; carmine, a dye ...

ECKART is introducing SYNCRYSTAL Very Berry, a new carmine-free pink effect pigment that expands the ECKART portfolio in the red color range As the name of the new effect pigment suggests, SYNCRYSTAL ...