Meet the insect you probably didn’t know you’re eating.

Here are 7 foods that contain the cochineal PARASITE for it’s color:

-Starbuck’s Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut, and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

-Kellogg’s Fruit Loops cereal and Fruit Snacks.

-Tropicana

-Betty Crocker’s red velvet cake mix

-Nesquik Chocolate Cookie Sandwich (Strawberry) and Nestle Wonka Nerds

-Skittles

-Dannon yogurt strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry flavors

Sidenote: It takes 40,000 of these bugs to create 1lb of carmine dye. 🤯