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It comes from cochineal extract and is made from the desiccated bodies of female Dactlyopius coccus Costa, a small insect from peru. The bug feed on red cactus berries and color from the berries accumulated surrounded by the females and their unhatched larvae. The insects are collected, dried, and ground into pigment. It take about 70,000 of them to produce one pound of carmine, which is used to generate processed foods look pink.
I don't know, but I've never like the stuff - to me, it's always taste bitter. I'm going to put your question within my watch roll to see if somebody else knows.
well, theres no such entity as pink lemons. I think they give food coloring to make it look that mode and pretty.
Food coloring.
A hint of grenadine syrup.
if it is actual fresh lemonade, then it is usually colored using maraschino cherry juice. sometimes its grenadine.
if it is a lemonade mix, then its probable colored with an artificial colorant (red dye no. XX).
Grenadine syrup. Depending on the syrup, -it- gets its color from untaught pomegranate fruits or food dye.
So, pomegranates for good pink lemonade, and red food dye for cheap pink lemonade (Most will be food dye colored)
food coloring
food coloring
Actual pink lemonade is a combination of lemonade and ruby red grapefruit juice.
"...the addition of grenadine make for the traditional variant call 'pink lemonade'..."
--wikipedia
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