date:Jul 29, 2013
CSPI, the self-styled organised voice of the American public on nutrition, food safety, health and other issues, wants Dannon to put berries over bugs.
Dannon uses carminea dye extracted from the dried, pulverised bodies of cochineal insectsto give several varieties of fruit-flavoured yoghurt their pink colour. The non-profit food watchdog group says that Dannon's practice cheats consumers, who might expect that the named fruitsand not the unnamed creepy crawliesare providing the colour. And,