Are there bugs in strawberry yogurt

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By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Select free newsletters: The Weekender. Today's Highlights. Christian Science Perspective. Dannon yogurt has bugs in it. Health Canada, although acknowleding the changes the FDA made, has not enacted any changes to the way carmine is to be labelled in the north. The Aztecs used the cochineal bugs to dye fabrics into vivid, long lasting colors.

Anecdotal side effects include: stomach pains, and other skin related allergic reactions. Sorry my vegetarian friends. This reminds me of the time when I found out that the little brown specs in my rice that I had already eaten were not actually part of the grain but rather little red ants that my grandmother was not able to discern prior to cooking it!

Strict vegans may have unknowingly ingested carmine via juice and topically via skin care products. Lacto-Ovo vegetarians may have unknowingly eaten these critters in milk products. Carmine is also obviously not kosher so those who only eat kosher may have also been compromised. Recently, news has emerged that Dannon uses carmine in four flavors of Fruit on the Bottom yogurt Strawberry, Raspberry, Cherry, and Boysenberry , and in the Strawberry variety of its Oikos Greek yogurt.

Some berry-flavored yogurts get their lovely pink hue from crushed cochineal insects. The color is extracted from dried bugs and processed into a dye that is added to your food. Yogurt is rich in nutrients and may boost your health when consumed regularly. It may help reduce the risk of some diseases, while also benefiting digestive health and weight control. However, make sure to choose your yogurt wisely.

The shells are made of hard sugar candy,that is colored with small amounts of food grade dyes. No, the shells are not made of insects. Carmine red is a natural food dye derived from the Cochneal insect. Is Red 40 Made From Bugs? Dried cochineal beetles, used to make the natural red dye known as carmine. Greig: It's expensive to make. I mean, it's easier to just make a chemical dye, and this is a very specialized, you have to farm these little bugs, and collect billions of pounds of them, and dry all them and all that, so I think that just wasn't as practical.

Narrator: Other companies took it out because, well, people still don't like eating bugs, especially vegans. In fact, Yoplait now remains one of the only major brands that sells food colored with carmine. But even Yoplait may phase it out after customers expressed concerns about eating bug parts. Greig: So I just think it's ironic people are freaked out about insects, about eating insects, even though we eat two pounds of insects a year on average by accident.

Benji Jones: Nope, just tastes like yogurt! Not buggy at all, in fact. Not that I would know what that would taste like, but I'm really just getting plain Greek yogurt taste. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App.