deep purple-red color, and that's the source of cochineal, cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.

The extracted dye from the female cochineal bugs is used to color foods, makeup ... Check the ingredient label for the different names cochineal dye goes by: cochineal, carmine, carminic acid, Natural ...

crushed bugs that live on cactus plants in South America. It takes tens of thousands of the ground-up insects to make just a pound of the vivid red dye. The red coloring, called carmine ...