The United States Food and Drug Administration has recently banned the use of synthetic Red No. 3 in food and ingestible ...

Centuries before the now-banned red dye No. 3 was synthesized in a lab, humans turned to insects to color their foods, ...

Yes, there are in fact strawberries in there, but they're there for flavor and texture, not color. That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs.

It is a well-known struggle that trying to read and understand the ingredients list on cosmetics is a long and confusing process. It is highly recommended to know what is in your cosmetics, because ...

The decision arrives nearly 35 years after the dye was prohibited in cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.

Carmine is a widely used pigment derived from gravid cochineal insects. Carminic acid is the source of its color. Only two previous publications describing allergic contact dermatitis from carmine ...

Red No. 3 is found in cereals, candy, juice, and frozen desserts, and is responsible for the bright red color seen in products ... dyes such as beet juice and carmine, which comes from ground ...

Yes, there are in fact strawberries in there, but they're there for flavor and texture, not color. That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs.