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Is it true that red smarties have red bugs in the ingridients?

April 26, 2017bugs DRINK food ingridients red smarties

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Is it true that red smarties have red bugs in the ingridients?

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Cochineal beatles are commonly used to colour food red, as Smarties are not included in the list of vegetarian foods produced by Nestle (on Nestle’s website) I think its safe to presume they do use real cochineal (if they used artificial cochineal Smarties would be vegetarian)

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In 2006 it was announced that Nestle were removing all artificial colours from Smarties in the UK, owing to consumer concerns over chemical dyes producing hyperactivity in young children – various theories had circulated concerning which colours were better or worse for one’s health.[citation needed] In answer to this controversy, Nestle decided to replace all chemical dyes with natural ones. As they were unable to source a natural blue dye, blue Smarties were replaced with white.

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Yes, it is true. I’m not sure about smarties but I know that it’s in nerds. The beetles are called carmine. They are put in for the red dye and are found in red lipstick, strawberry yogurt and “Nerds”. It’s nutritious by the way.