(CBS News) Are you a fan of Starbucks Strawberry Frappuccinos? How do you feel about eating bugs? The website thisdishisvegetarian.com reports Starbucks' Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino is not vegan, ...

Starbucks is coming under fire from vegans for using ground-up bugs to color its Frappuccinos, but the use of cochineal insects is actually common in the food industry. In fact, cochineal dye has been ...

Apparently, some of your favorite red lipsticks are made from bugs. Yes, the cochineal ingredient you see listed on makeup products actually comes from dead insects. But don’t freak out. While it does ...

Next time you're browsing the supermarket in search of the makings of that night's dinner, pause a moment to read the ingredients labels of your favorite red-colored ingestibles and cosmetics. Chances ...

Dried cochineal insects — shown here in the center of the photo — can be processed to create several natural dyes such as carmine and cochineal extract. These products get their red hue from carminic ...

If you are horrified by the thought of eating insects, the bad news is that you have probably done so many, many times. This is because one of the most widely used red food colourings - carmine - is ...

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 ...

It’s the red seen in a British Red Coat, an El Greco masterpiece, an Andean textile and a contemporary designer evening gown. This particular color — long associated with power, wealth, seduction and ...

Recently, California banned Red Dye No. 3, a synthetic food colourant used for 30 years over health concerns. Natural red dye, including used for food, has a very interesting story that includes ...

Starbucks has declared that it will no longer use cochineal extract, an insect-derived red coloring, in its wares. If anyone is imagining that the use of this dye is rare or new, they’re mistaken. The ...

Once there was a color so valuable that emperors and conquistadors coveted it, and so did kings and cardinals. Artists went wild over it. Pirates ransacked ships for it. Poets from Donne to Dickinson ...

There are bugs in your food and makeup. Some of them are there on purpose. One of the best known is cochineal, a red color additive derived from a scale insect called, appropriately, the cochineal ...