Sentences with phrase «in cochineal»

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Unfortunately the Sweet Valley Jelly - in Diced pears in raspberry jelly isn't vegan - it contains colour 120 which is cochineal... even though it says vegan on the packaging..

Starbucks agreed to stop using cochineal extract as a pink food coloring in April as the result of anotherChange.org petition.

It takes about 2,500 bugs to produce one ounce of cochineal extract, used in ice creams, yogurts, candy, beverages and other foods.

Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Carmella Padilla and Barbara Anderson, eds., A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World, Skira Rizzoli, in association with the Museum of International Folk Art

Through a mix of historical research, and collaboration, the rugs are made by a family of traditional Mexican weavers and colored with a dye made from the cochineal beetle, an important export during the Spanish colonial period in Mexico.

This volume, the first in a series of four, describes the history, characteristics, and scientific analysis of 10 pigments (Indian yellow; cobalt yellow; natural and synthetic barium sulfate; cadmium yellows, oranges, and reds; red lead and minium; green earth; zinc white; chrome yellow and other chromate pigments; lead antimonate yellow; and cochineal and kermes carmine) that have played a major role in the history of painting.

Centuries later, during the 16th and 17th centuries, the most popular red pigment came from a cochineal insect, a creature that could only be found on prickly - pear cacti in Mexico.

I think the coloring in this dress is striking, and I love that it's all from natural dyes — indigo comes from a plant and the exhibit's program says that Cochineal is a «scale insect that feeds on the Nopal cactus in arid areas of Mexico, Peru, Chile, and the Canary Islands.»