Centuries before the now-banned red dye No. 3 was synthesized in a lab, humans turned to insects to color their foods, ...

Greig: So I just think it's ironic people are freaked out about insects ... for flavor and texture, not color. That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from ...

It is a well-known struggle that trying to read and understand the ingredients list on cosmetics is a long and confusing process. It is highly recommended to know what is in your cosmetics, because ...

Carmine is a widely used pigment derived from gravid cochineal insects. Carminic acid is the source of its color. Only two previous publications describing allergic contact dermatitis from carmine ...