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[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. That's Natural Red 4, aka carmine aka cochineal. And if you're squicked out about bugs in your food then boy oh boy have I got bad news for you lol. Anyway bugs ass food is fine, personally, as long as they're ground up into dust first.

The difference between eating a few by accident and having them ground up for coloring matters to vegetarians.