Here are 7 foods that contain the cochineal PARASITE for it’s color:
🔴Starbuck’s Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut, and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
🔴Kellogg’s Fruit Loops cereal and Fruit Snacks.
🔴Tropicana
🔴Betty Crocker’s red velvet cake mix
🔴Nesquik Chocolate Cookie Sandwich (Strawberry) and Nestle Wonka Nerds
🔴Skittles
🔴Danone yogurt strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry flavors
😲 Sidenote: It takes 40,000 of these bugs to create 1lb of dye.
Oh yummy 🫣🤢
Glad I stay away from that mess!