[Sca-cooks] dyestuff toxicity?
Tara Sersen Boroson
tboroson at netcarrier.com
Wed Mar 20 08:02:13 PST 2002
You may eat it frequently without knowing it. It's a common "natural
color" used in things like fruit juice drinks, and it's rarely listed by
name. I remember hearing a few years ago that Ocean Spray is personally
responsible for some huge cochineal population depletion problem, but I
don't know what the source of that info was.
-Magdalena
A F Murphy wrote:
> 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...
>
> I think bedstraw is used as an herbal medicine, so look in your
> herbals. I don't remember what for, and I don't have a reference handy.
>
> No idea about the others.
>
> You want reds, I gather?
>
> Anne
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