Starbucks to stop using crushed bugs as red dye
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SEATTLE -- Starbucks said Thursday it will phase out the use of a red dye made from ground up insects that the company uses to color some of its beverage and food products.
The Seattle-based coffee giant said it will no longer use cochineal extract, which is processed from crushed beetles, to color some of its red-tinted products.
"After a thorough, yet fastidious, evaluation, I am pleased to report that we are reformulating the affected products to assure the highest quality possible," Cliff Burrows, the company's US president, said in a statement posted to the company's blog.
Instead, Starbucks will start using lycopene, a tomato-based extract, to tint offerings that need red coloring, including strawberry banana smoothies and miniature donuts.
"Our intention is to be fully transitioned from existing product inventories to revised food and beverage offerings near the end of June across the US," Burrows said.
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The Seattle-based coffee giant said it will no longer use cochineal extract, which is processed from crushed beetles, to color some of its red-tinted products.
"After a thorough, yet fastidious, evaluation, I am pleased to report that we are reformulating the affected products to assure the highest quality possible," Cliff Burrows, the company's US president, said in a statement posted to the company's blog.
Instead, Starbucks will start using lycopene, a tomato-based extract, to tint offerings that need red coloring, including strawberry banana smoothies and miniature donuts.
"Our intention is to be fully transitioned from existing product inventories to revised food and beverage offerings near the end of June across the US," Burrows said.
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Gotta love the lexicon of fancy corporate PR words they use!
Why not just say "By the end of June, none of our products will have any of that creepy bug dye we'd been using!"
hehe
lame
Just ask them to scoop some out where they keep the food.
most anything red, pink or purple can be dyed with it...also look for Carmine Red as a coloring agent
(why do you think red Kool Aid was called 'Bug Juice'?)
It does make me wonder though, I used to drink the strawberry frappachinos, they aren't any redder then the strawberry protein shakes I drink every day...I wonder if there are more than just strawberries in their frapps than strawberries, milk and sugar. :?
- Christopher McCandless
yeah but it's not the same
Carmine Ragusa was a coloring agent and source of protein for Shirley Feeney :shock:
I will never look at Laverne the same again...
- Christopher McCandless
Laverne never had many boyfriends on that show...hmmmmm?
I'm talking about the show in general...though I think her and Squiggy shacked up.
Didn't she have the firefighter boyfriend at one time?
- Christopher McCandless
squiggy was shirley's beau...lenny was laverne's
I swear Laverne had a boyfriend that died in a fire...it was in the newspaper...or was that when they moved to Cali?
- Christopher McCandless
yeah she did have a firefighter bf...not sure about him dying...i just remember that squiggy had the hots for shirley and lenny for laverne...really, i don't think they ever had long lasting bf
i wonder if laverne ever put crushed bugs in her pepsi & milk....
I love these threads....the hard-hitting discussions about 70's tv shows are so much fun! The people on the AMT who aimlessly debate about hardcore political topics should take a lesson from us!
Which one did the Fonz?
neither...you're thinking of mrs. cunningham.
Squiggy