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| Description | A small scale insect - cochineal - often is found on the pads of the prickly pear. You can see the small red spot in the middle of the white fluff on the left-hand side of the picture. It is used to make the red dye carmine. From Wikipedia: "Today, it is used as a fabric and cosmetics dye and as a natural food colouring... When used as a food additive the dye must be included on packaging labels.[26] Sometimes carmine is labelled as E120...Natural carmine dye used in food and cosmetics can render the product unacceptable to vegetarian or vegan consumers, many Muslims consider carmine-containing food forbidden (haraam) because the dye is extracted from insects, and Jews also avoid food containing this additive (even though it is not treif and some authorities allow its use because the insect is dried and reduced to powder)." The right side shows the damage the insects do to the pads. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal |
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| Author | Leslie Seaton from Seattle, WA, USA |
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