George McJunkin (1851–1922) was an African American cowboy, rancher and amateur archaeologist whose extraordinary discovery ...

A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous. Cochineal—parasitic insects that ...

Texans, meet the cochineal—an insect used to dye some of your favorite red and pink foods. It’s natural, it’s tiny, and yes... you might be eating it.

(A lake is a fat-soluble version of a dye.) Cochineal dyes are from the tiny dried and crushed bodies of female cochineal insects mostly and easily harvested from cacti in Peru, Giusti said. So ...

As health concerns grow, the FDA is urging U.S. food companies to replace petroleum-based artificial dyes with natural ones ...

As artificial food dyes are becoming increasingly restricted at state and federal levels, some manufacturers are looking to switch to natural dyes to color their food products.Food and Drug ...

As food companies face pressure to eliminate artificial dyes, experts weigh in on the natural alternatives that could replace ...

Cochineal dyes are from the tiny dried and crushed bodies of female cochineal insects mostly and easily harvested from cacti in Peru, Giusti said. So intensely colored that just crushing them with ...