SC - RE: A Different Egg Question

[Sharon R. Saroff]

Just a side note, the use of cochineal as a food coloring is one of the
reasons why foods have kosher markings on them.  Foods containing this food
dye are not kosher.  I believe annato (spl?) is used instead.

Sindara


At 02:38 PM 3/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Cochineal is used as a food dye, as well as for fabric.  It gives pink 
>grapefruit juice its commercially-desired pink tint, and is behind the 
>policy of many a church injunction against red fruit punches at receptions. 
> I've noticed a couple of products in the last few years that have changed 
>to using the word "kermes" instead - guess they realized that lots of folks 
>know what cochineal really is.  A dye expert can tell you about the 
>differences between cochineal and kermes (different species of bugs, both 
>of which yield a red pigment).
>
>Talana
>Jcarlson at firstchurchtulsa.org
>
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