Food advocates Some reddish dye in yogurt made from bugs

Michael F. Jacobson , executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, said Dannon uses carmine -- a dye extracted from the dried, pulverized bodies of cochineal insects -- to give fruit-flavored yogurt their pink color. The dye is used in the Strawberry flavor of Dannon's Oikos brand of Greek yogurt, two flavors of Dannon's Light and Fit Greed use the ...

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