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body and eggs to make the red dye. Cochineal is used primarily as a red food colouring and for cosmetics. The cochineal dye was used by the Aztec and Maya...

Opuntia ficus-indica, the Indian fig opuntia, fig opuntia, or prickly pear, is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant grown in...

Opuntia monacantha, commonly known as drooping prickly pear, cochineal prickly pear, or Barbary fig, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae native to...

for fodder or forage, and others for food (particularly their fruit). Cochineal is the product of an insect that lives on some cacti. Many succulent plants...

Italy. It was originally coloured with carmine dye, derived from crushed cochineal insects, which gave the drink its distinctive red colour. Campari Group...

under proper husbandry. Some, such as the cochineal, kermes, lac, Armenian cochineal, and Polish cochineal, have been used to produce red dyes for coloring...

cherry pits, amongst other botanicals, and coloring the liqueur with red cochineal, as was done in the past. Care was taken to remove the trace elements...

Exploring Prime Numbers on Your PC and the Internet. Enoch Haga. pp. 71–80, fig. 8, table 9. ISBN 978-1-885794-24-6. LCCN 2007900755.. Haga, Enoch (2009)...

the color of pomegranate pulp, or from granum, referring to "red dye, cochineal". The modern French term for pomegranate, grenade, has given its name...

Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Van Leeuwenhoek was interested in dried cochineal, trying to find out if the dye came from a berry or an insect. He studied...

including cochineal and indigo (for dyes), cacao, vanilla, henequen (for rope), cotton, and tobacco. A high quality, fast red dye from small cochineal insects...

manufactured in Ancient Armenia, using the Armenian double knot and Armenian cochineal for the red colour. According to another source, it is an imported Persian...

naturally-sourced color palettes of pre-European codices: red from the cochineal insect, yellow from tecoçahuitl stones and flowering plants, black from...

resources like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cochineal, sugarcane, grapes, vines, dates, oranges, lemons, figs, wheat, barley, maize, apricots, peaches and...

threads used in the carpet were colored with a dye made from the Armenian cochineal, which was anciently found on the Ararat plains. Moreover, the technique...

the Hebrews, found in Israel and Egypt and used by serpent-charmers. Cochineal (שָׁנִי‎ šənî; Coccus ilicis) — A hemiptera homoptera insect very common...

a taste for sweetened chocolate. Another important export product was cochineal, a color-fast red dye made from dried insects living on cacti. It became...

moisturizers and toothpaste; and carmine from scale insects, such as the female cochineal, used in food and cosmetics to produce red and pink shades; Beauty Without...

insecticides is advised. Specific insecticide information and guidance for the fig whitefly is available from the University of Florida. Care should be taken...

hartshorn was colored blue with violet juice, yellow with saffron, red with cochineal and green with spinach and allowed to set in layers in small, narrow glasses...