Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

Food companies that once relied on synthetic dyes for cost and convenience are now facing a different reality: transparency, ...

Electric red and syrupy sweet maraschino cherries don't exactly look natural, but their neon color connotes cheerful ...

Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...

Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

Carmine is a natural red colouring agent produced from cochineal extract. The extract from these insects is rich in carminic acid, which is combined with aluminium (Al) and calcium (Ca) to produced ...

Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the historically significant red pigment carmine. It turns ...

Carmine, a nonabsorbable bright-red dye that is manufactured from insects originally indigenous to Central America, has been widely used as a fecal dye marker. Contamination of carmine has further ...

Food dye allergies are rare, but if you have one, you may be at risk for an anaphylactic reaction. Here’s what you need to know.

Carmine is an intense red pigment derived from the cochineal beetle, and is widely used in beauty products, food, and textiles. However, Debut has discovered a new class of enzyme enabling the ...

Debut Biotech is making history with a lab-grown alternative to carmine, the red pigment derived from cochineal beetles.