This is not going to be one of those controversial fear-mongering food exposés, but we just thought there's something you ought to know: You're eating bugs. Much red food coloring, known as carmine or ...

The intense red color of classic lipstick traditionally comes from an unlikely source: crushed bugs that live on cactus plants in South America. It takes tens of thousands of the ground-up insects to ...

Did you know that there are Cochineal insects products and foods made with crushed bugs? Are the large food companies bugging our food? Today people are consuming a lot of food infused with chemicals ...

Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our area. This insect lives on nopal, prickly pear, Opuntia ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Yogurt company Dannon has come under fire recently for the most obscure of reasons. The company’s ...

That natural red coloring in your food and makeup might come from a place that may make you cringe: The ground-up bodies of thousands of tiny insects. Thousands of miles from your local grocery store, ...

The biggest producer of natural red food coloring is hit by backlash over its source. Hearing of a case of head lice is enough to give anyone the heebie-jeebies, but the thought of eating lice is ...

Did you know that there are Cochineal insects products and foods made with crushed bugs? Are the large food companies bugging our food? Today people are consuming a lot of food infused with chemicals ...