Cochineal is made from
the cochineal beetle. This are usually labelled as cochineal, carmine, or
carminic acid.
The female cochineal
insects are used to make the dye, as these contain the carminic acid which
produces the red coloring. A large quantity of the insects are processed using
high heat or steam in order to extract the dye.
Red pigment is taken
from the crushed female cochineal insect. It takes a million corpses to make a
kilogram of carminic acid, the more purified form of cochineal extract.
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