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- Carmine is a dye used mainly for coloring food products and
galenicals but also in inks.
- This natural colorant "Carmine" is the purified form of a colorant
known as cochineal.
- Cochineal, or cochineal extract, is also used as a natural colorant
in food products.
- Cochineal and its derivatives come from the bodies of female
cochineal beetles.
- These colorants come from the female Dactylopius coccus, a beetle
that inhabits a type of cactus known as Opuntia.
- Dactylopius coccus was the source of a red dye used by Aztecs and
Mexican.
- The dried cochineal, which contains 17 to 24 percent carminic acid,
is subjected to a carefully controlled extraction process in an acidic,
aqueous, alcoholic solution.
- Today cochineal has been surpassed as a dye for cloth by a number of
synthetic pigments, but is still widely used as a coloring agent for a
number of foodstuffs,
beverages, and cosmetics (because many of those
synthetic dyes proved dangerous to
humans when taken internally or
allowed to leach into the body through the skin).
- It takes about 70,000 insects to make one pound of cochineal.
- The present day market price of cochineal is between 50 and 80
dollars per kilo and its demand is growing because of increasing
evidence that artificial colorings can be hazardous.
- Therefore, the modern world is turning more and more to this ancient
product, the blood of the gods.
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General
- Dictionary of Colors
- Color Selection Guide
- Natural Colors - Food Products
- Peerlite Colors
- Overview
- Carmine Color
- Carmine
- Carmine - Introduction -Manufacturing
- Carmine - Microscopy
- Indigo Carmine
- Stamp Owned Carmine
- Ingredients - Carmine
- Carmine Lake
- Stamps sorted by Color Carmine
- Acid Proof Cochineal Powder
- Tiny Insect with a Big Secret
- Cochineal / Carmine
- Cochineal - Source of Red Dye
- Cochineal Carmine
- Natural Enemies of Cochineal
- Wild Facts
- History & Cultivation - Cochineal
- Cochineal
- Ground up Beetles
- Cochineal Natural Dye - Dyeing Process
Carminic
Acid
- Carminic Acid - Microscopy
- Carminic Acid - General
- Food Additive - Carminic Acid
MSDS &
Defects
- MSDS - Carmine
- MSDS - Indigo Carmine
- Carmine Allergy
- Color Additives in Food Allergy
- Drug Colorants
- Allergy Immunology - Asthma
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Cochineal
Extract
- Carmine Extraction Technology
- Cochineal Extract - Carmine Overview
- Cochineal Extract - Monograph
- Cochineal Extract & Carmine Label Declaration
- Cochineal Extract Liquid 3.2%
- Cochineal Extract - Carmine
- Carmine Dye Extraction
Cactus
- Cacti
- Cactus - Growth Guidelines
- Cactus Production & Market
- Growing Guide - Cactus
- Cactus Cultivation
Reports
- Ararat Kermes
- Processing of Natural Products - Carminic Acid
- FDA Report
- Food Safety - Ireland
- FDA - Labeling or Ban Carmine
Market
- Carmine Manufacturers / Exporters
- Indigo Carmine Manufacturers & Suppliers
- Cochineal Sales Site
- Sensient Technologies
- Grana Del Carmine
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