The insects used to make carmine are called cochineal, and are native to Latin America where they live on cacti. Now farmed mainly in Peru, millions of the tiny insects are harvested every year to ...

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 ...

So far, Morocco has lost around 150,000 hectares of prickly pear to the bug — called false carmine cochineal or Dactylopius opuntiae — and some 30,000 people have lost their jobs. Two factories ...

That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs. Squashed female cochineal bugs, to be specific. They're tick-sized critters native to Mesoamerica ...

Although there are many reported cases of immediate allergy after ingestion of foods containing cochineal, there are few reports of allergic contact dermatitis from carmine. We present a rare case ...

Let's talk about carmine - aka the red pigment that makes up the hue in most of our lipsticks. This punchy red dye comes from ...

That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs. Squashed female cochineal bugs, to be specific. They're tick-sized critters native to Mesoamerica ...

To make it, workers grind up thousands of the tiny bugs. Then they mix the deep red powder with water. Nearly 70,000 bugs go into each pound of cochineal, or carmine, coloring.

The ammoniacal cochineal is produced by boiling finely ... of solution of tin are employed instead of 140, and 1 oz. of carmine of safranum instead of 2 ozs. Balloons.—J. H.