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"Many strawberry yogurts, for example, get their color from carmine, which is also found in many frozen fruit bars, candies, fruit fillings, and juice drinks, as well as cosmetics like lipstick and eye shadow. carmine is a food dye derived from ground-up insects that produce the pigment-containing carminic acid. (As with many food additives, carmine FACT The American flavor industry has annual revenues of about $1.4 billion. Approximately 10,000 new processed food products are introduced every year in the United States. Almost all of them require flavor additives." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The practice of coloring one's lips to appear more attractive to potential romantic partners has been around since the time of Cleopatra, who painted her lips with carmine and henna to give them a fashionable appeal for her Roman suitors. It turns out, however, that many of those colored kisses are poisoned: most brand-name lipsticks sold in the U.S. contain detectable levels of lead that can be toxic to the wearer, according to a 2007 study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Of thirty-three brands of lipstick they sent to an independent laboratory for analysis, 61 percent contained lead." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The interiors ofkun-ings, unlike the better-known yellow-fleshed varieties, range from neon orange to deep carmine. This one has an intoxicatingly nutty, almondlike taste, and only the faintest odor. It's infinitely better than the putrescent stink bombs found in Manhattan. There are twenty-seven species of Durio, most of which are native to Borneo, including centipede durians, mini durians with almost imperceptible seeds and even a naturally occurring odorless variety called sawo." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Today, these seeds are used as a dye called annatto that colors everything from butter to salad oils. Red carmine dye, or cochineal, comes from the pulverized corpses of small-scale insects that turn red after eating cactus fruits. Numerous other fruits also produce tannins used in paints, dyes and other coloring agents. Fruits could replace many toxic cleaning products (most of which contain artificial scents like "fresh citrus"). Kaffir limes are used to wash hair in Bali. Jamaicans clean floors with orange halves." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The fruit is a group of small, fleshy, oblong carmine berries with 1 or 2 hard, black and glossy seeds. The fruit is similar to the raspberry but is not edible. Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is a low herbaceous perennial about 30 cm high. It has a horizontal bright yellow, knotty and twisted rhizome about 0.6 to 1.8 cm thick out of which the root fibers grow. It is folded longitudinally and encircled by old leaf scars. The fracture is short and shows a dark, yellow cut surface, thick bark, large pith and broad medullary rays." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"The petals are light carmine to fleshy red, occasionally yellowish-white or pure white. The fruit is a pod, which is ovate, single-seeded and thin-skinned. The seed is oblong-ovate, yellow to brownish or violet. Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is a perennial herb, 15 to 40 cm high with a bushy rhizome and a basal leaf rosette. An erect, angular stem grows from the rhizome. The rhizome is covered in alternate, trifoliate, elliptical or qvate leaves, which have a characteristic arrow-shaped white spot on the upper surface." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) "Flower and Fruit: The flowers are carmine red with white-' edged spots on the inside. The flowers appear in long hanging racemes. They have 5 free, short-tipped sepals. The corolla is about 4 cm long, campanulate, bilabiate with an obtuse upper lip and an ovate tip on the lower lip. The flower is glabrous on the outside and has a white awn on the inside. There are 2 long and 2 short stamens, and 1 superior ovary. The fruit is a doublevalved, ovate, glandular, villous capsule. Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is a biennial with a branched tap root. In the first year it develops a leaf rosette." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) "Flower and Fruit: The inflorescence is compound spikes of carmine red flowers, 4 to 8 mm in diameter. Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is a perennial and has an erect, leafy stem up 2 m. The leaves are opposite, up to 30 cm long, and 1 cm wide. The rhizome is 1 cm or more in diameter. It is gnarled with several cup-shaped scars. The rhizome is brownish and slightly wrinkled on the outside. Inside it is whitish with dark gray spots. Characteristics: The root is very solid. The taste is bitter, and the odor is faintly aromatic, resembling cedar. Habitat: U.S., cultivated in parts of Europe." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"No known toxicity. carmine • Cochineal. A crimson pigment derived from a Mexican and Central American species of a scaly female insect that feeds on various cacti. The dye is used in cosmetic colors, red applesauce, and other food. The FDA permanently listed carmine for use in food in 1977. Cochineal, itself, is no longer permitted for use in foods or cosmetics but its extracts are permitted. CARMINIC ACID • Natural Red No. 4. Used in mascaras, liquid rouge, paste rouge, and red eye shadows. It is the glucosidal coloring matter from a scaly insect (see carmine)." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"It is the host plant of cochineal, a type of mealy bug that produces a valuable red vegetable dye known as carmine (carminic acid). Immature young stems are called nopales or nopalitos and are sold as vegetables or pickles. Origin & history Indigenous to Mexico and an important food source since prehistoric times. It spread around the world in post-Columbian times, sometimes becoming troublesome weeds. Today, prickly pears are grown on a commercial scale in various countries, including Australia, South Africa and the USA. Parts used Ripe fruits." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Flower and Fruit: The inflorescences are compound spikes of carmine red flowers, 4 to 8 mm in diameter. Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is a perennial and has an erect, leafy stem up 2 m. The leaves are opposite, up to 30 cm long and 1 cm wide. The rhizome is 1 cm or more in diameter. It is gnarled with several cup-shaped scars. The rhizome is brownish and slightly wrinkled on the outside. Inside it is whitish with dark gray spots. Characteristics: The root is very solid. The taste is bitter and the odor is faintly aromatic, resembling cedar. Habitat: U.S. cultivated in parts of Europe." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.) "The female flowers are in thinner catkins with carmine stigmas. The seeds ripen in May or June, are very small and have a white lanate tuft of hair. Leaves, Stem and Root: The tree may grow up to 30 m in height. The bark is initially yellow brown and later becomes black-gray and is fissured. The leaf buds are sticky. The leaves are almost circular with a dark green upper surface and a light gray-green under surface. They are dentate or lobed with obtuse teeth, initially silky-haired, later glabrous. The petioles are long, thin and compressed at the sides." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.) "The corolla is usually carmine red, occasionally white. The stamens and styles are exserted. The nutlet is ovoid, 1.5 to 2 cm long, smooth, finely reticulate and has a large, circular, attaching surface. Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is a subshrub with a shortlived main root from which grow long-reaching, branched, thin woody roots and a stem-producing runner. The stems are usually erect and branched. The older branches are decumbent, the younger ones erect, tough, round and lanate. The branches are occasionally covered in glandular hairs, often red-violet." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Natural flavors, colored with carmine. A The Body Shop (England). Flavored Lip Bahn. A Country Comfort Natural Lip Balm (Country Comfort). The Soap Opera. A Earth Eye/Lip Creme (Ida Grae/ Nature's Colors). Colored with carmine. The Allergy Store. A Fluir Herbals. Flavored Lip Balm. A GK Lip Moisturizer (Pure Body Creations). Flavored. A Golden Sauve (East Earth Herb). A Lip Aum (East Earth Herb). A Nanak's Lip Smoothee (Golden Temple Natural Products). Flavored. A New Age Creations. Flavored Lip Balm. A Ram Island Farm Herbs. Flavored Lip Balm with a cocoa-butter base." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic & Natural: how to avoid dangerous everyday products and buy or make safe ones (Get the book.)

"The Only Herbal Skin Freshener (Genesis Herbal Products) with Rosewater, carmine extract, Annatto extract, and Citric acid. Rachel Perry's Peach & Papaya Facial Scrub with pH-balanced Papaya extract, Peach kernel oil, Spanish Juniper, Belgian Chamomile, Clary Sage, Evening Primrose oil, Mint, Arnica, and Geranium." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Liquid rouge usually contains carmine coloring, ammonium hydroxide, glycerin (see all), and red coloring pigment. It may also contain polyvinylpyrrolidone or sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, glycerin, color, propylene glycol (see all), alcohol, perfume, and water. Rouge paste may contain carmine coloring, ammonium hydroxide, beeswax, cetyl alcohol, stearic acid, cocoa butter, and petrolatum (see all)." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.) "The FDA permanently listed carmine for use in food in 1977. Cochineal, itself, is no longer permitted for use in foods or cosmetics but its extracts are permitted. CARMINIC ACID • Natural Red No. 4. Used in mascaras, liquid rouge, paste rouge, and red eye shadows. It is the glucosidal coloring matter from a scaly insect (see carmine). Color is deep red in water and violet to yellow in acids. May cause allergic reactions. See Colors. Banned by the FDA. CARNATION • The essential oil of the double-flowered variety of clove pink." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"A natural red coloring, cochineal (and its close relative carmine), causes life-threatening reactions. Dyes can cause hyperactivity in sensitive children. Michael Jacobson CSPI which are absorbed through the skin), contain chemical additives that have been linked to numerous health problems. Children are especially at risk due to the smaller, more sensitive nature of their developing bodies, and the fact that most processed and junk foods geared to the younger set are loaded with artificial colorings, flavorings, and preservatives. In the early 1970's, Dr." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Tetranychus cinnabari-nus (Mansour et al, 1986). Antineoplastic Effects: The active antineoplastic agents in lavender oil are thought to be attributed to monoterpenes such as d-limonene and perillyl alcohol (Fetrow & Avila, 1999). Perillyl alcohol is hydrogenated d-limonene; limonene has antitumor activity against rodent mammary, liver, lung, pancreatic, stomach, prostate, and skin (Jirtle et al, 1993; Stayrook et al, 1997). Central Nervous System Effects: Lavender oil is a sedative and hypnotic for humans and animals." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"He sees fantastic landscapes dipped in orange, red, carmine, or scarlet. The round house, shaken by spasms, bends grotesquely. All at once a tornado of blood rises and floods everything, beings and things. Strange and horrifying people appear and dissolve again." Jacques Lizot Im Kreis der Fever [In the Circle of Fire] (1982,118) 459 2-CB (4-bromo-2,5dimethoxyphencthylamine), which produces effects somewhere between those of mescaline and MDMA, was discovered by Alexander Shulgin (cf. Shulgin and Shulgin 1991, 503 ff.). produced from various species of Virola." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"A crimson pigment derived from a Mexican and Central American species of a scaly female insect that feeds on various cacti. carmine and Cochineal extracts are permanently listed, but cochineal alone is not authorized for use. The colorings are used in red applesauce, confections, baked goods, meats, and spices. Cochineal was involved in an outbreak of salmonellosis (an intestinal infection) that killed one infant in a Boston hospital and made twenty-two patients seriously ill. carmine, used in the diagnostic solution to test the digestive organs, was found to be the infecting agent." - Ruth Winter, Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E (Get the book.)

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