[Sca-cooks] cochineal

[Marilyn Traber]

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Hope you plan on giving up most every red drink known to man, INCLUDING pink
grapefruit juice, most bottled juices, red sodas and cranberry juice. All
contain cochineal.
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Cochineal/
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/dye.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/08/24/p22s1.htm
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/cfr73100.html
http://www.chr-hansen.com/CH_products.nsf/all/ch09a.htm
http://www.gcrg.org/bqr/8-2/bug.htm
http://www.silk.net/sirene/spices.htm
Then we get into the makeup industry, and the rest of the food industry. If
you do any shopping at places that use 'all natural products' and products
with no artificial ingredients, yep - buggses!
margali


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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] dyestuff toxicity?
Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

I think a cochineal derivative is used in food, but... they're bugs. I
admit I sort of don't care if they are toxic, I'm not eating them...
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