Posted on 07/27/2013 7:16:38 PM PDT by Innovative
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) – a nonprofit food watchdog group – Dannon uses an ingredient known as carmine to give some of its fruit-flavored yogurt a pink color.
Around 40,000 cochineal bugs are needed to produce just one pound of cochineal extract for the carminic acid, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. In order to obtain the substance, the insects’ bodies are dried and then boiled in water.
The CSPI argued that Dannon's use of carmine is cheating consumers, who believe that fruits are providing their yogurt’s color. They also maintain that numerous studies have found that the insect-based dye can put some people at risk for allergic reactions and even anaphylactic shock.
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vegans eat bugs and bug parts all the time in their “organic” food I bet
You have a point.
I brought a bag of Thai red rice home last year and left it on the shelf for a couple of weeks. The ant eggs in the rice hatched. When I went to open the bag, I discovered that I had an ant farm on my hands.
nice.
I've encountered no evidence of that in my studies.
When I was taking a trapping class, they covered marketable parts, but I don’t recall that being one of them!
Not exactly, since there is a honey sac, or 'crop' not part of the true stomach, even as it is also called a honey stomach (scroll down at link for illustrations).
But they do rather regurgitate from the honey sac, which is can also be used for carrying water, I think. The passing nectar (or honey) from bee to bee is called trophallaxis, which other social insects, such as ants, also do.
Bee keepers and bee scientists object to the "vomit" description as being less than accurate, due to the honey sac designed for the purpose. There has been some amount of investigation into the muscular structure of the valve between crop and stomach, showing it be all but impossible for stomach contents to be regurgitated(?) I can't remember the precise stuff I was reading (some Springer link or equivalent abstract/article) which went into close detail, but if memory serves, it's like bees could not "vomit" their true stomach contents if the wanted to? There was something about the physiology that made it next to impossible, though I cannot recall the details. It may be part of why pesticide die-offs are so severe. They may have mentioned that...which is why it comes to mind.
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