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carmine
(redirected from Cochineal dye)

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carmine /car·mine/ (kahr´min) a red coloring matter used as a histologic stain.
indigo carmine  indigotindisulfonate sodium.

car·mine (kärmn, -mn)
n.
A crimson pigment derived from cochineal.


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Bright colors from synthetic dyes--whether in your food or on your body--were not considered worth dying for, even if cochineal dyes, at about $80 per kilogram, are almost ten times more expensive.
The sweet uses the red cochineal dye, otherwise known as carmine or E120.
The cochineal dye of the Aztecs became highly prized in Europe.
 
 
 
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