Description

Solubility: water soluble
Stability: Have good heat resistance, light resisitance
Notice in application: in orange below PH4, in red to mauve PH**6, in mauve to purple above PH7
Function: Cochineal red is a food additive (E**0) and belongs to the group of colours which may be used in a selection of foods specified in the legislation. Yogurts and milkshakes do not belong to them.
About Cochineal Red Color:
Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in thesuborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the crimson-colored dye, carmine, is derived. There are other species in the genus Dactylopius that can be used to produce cochineal extract, but they are extremely difficult to distinguish from D. coccus, even for expert taxonomists, and the latter scientific name (and the use of the term \"cochineal insect\") is therefore commonly used when one is actually referring to other biological species. The primary biological distinctions between species are minor differences inhost plant preferences, in addition to very different geographic distributions. D. coccus itself is native totropical and subtropical South America and Mexico.