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8 Gross Ingredients You Don’t Know You’re Eating

Boiled beetle shells

Carmine is made by boiling female cochineal insect shells in ammonia or a sodium carbonate solution. It takes about 70,000 of the bugs to produce one pound of dye. Check the labels on colored Jell-O packages, candies and yogurts for the words cochineal extract, carmine or carminic acid.

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