Are there beetles in yogurt

Nancy Greig: And if you squish them, they are bright red inside and kind of a purply, 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 from clothes to pottery.

But it wasn't until more recently that they made their way into commercial foods. That's mostly thanks to artificial colors like Red 40, Yellow 5, and Blue 1. But in the late 20th century, consumers became increasingly concerned about synthetic chemicals in their foods and demanded more natural ingredients. So many companies turned to carmine. It's FDA improved and tasteless. It resists degradation from light, heat, and oxidation, and unlike some synthetic colorants, it hasn't been linked to cancers or tumor growth.

Greig: Now, some people apparently have allergies to it, but compared with the downsides of the chemical dye, it's very benign. It's like using beet juice. Narrator: And just like that, carmine ended up in strawberry and cream Frappuccinos and cake pops at Starbucks, in Tropicana grapefruit juice, and, yes, in Yoplait yogurts. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it.

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Lahiri says the worms are, well, maggots. They come from the Spotted Wing Drosophila Fly, a type of fruit fly. To help remove pesticides and bacteria, rinse your fresh strawberries in salt water.

Dissolve one teaspoon of salt for every cup of warm water and let cool before adding your strawberries. Let them soak for a couple of minutes, then rinse under cool running water.

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