Starbucks Bug Juice

[baconbits]

Not sure if this got much media coverage in Kelowna, but I'm sure most of the people who go to starbucks wouldn't want one of these drinks!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 8677.story

[Oxl3y]

Natural dyes come from all sorts of things would you prefer to drink a bunch of chemicals over something you think is icky?

[Oxl3y]

Here's a video on it.

[kelownawriter]

I always get a laugh when I see stuff like this come out of the woodwork. Sudden petitions and icks that occur because someone finally figured it out.

This is not the first time this has been used. There are many everyday products that make use of these beetles to produce edible pigments for the food and drinks we enjoy. Personally I find these beetles less scary than some of the chemicals that go into our foods to preserve and thicken them. Margarine has its own pretty creepy process.

[10Sne1]

Natural dyes come from all sorts of things would you prefer to drink a bunch of chemicals over something you think is icky?

A bunch of chemicals. Thank you very much.

[SaraChantell]

If people are icked out by the fact that carmine is derived from bugs, they might want to stop eating red colored food and drinks altogether. There are tons of products on the market that have carmine in them, even in cosmetics! I saw a few weeks ago that even the Fruitopia i was drinking had Carmine in it.

[10Sne1]

Carmine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the pigment. For other uses, see Carmine (disambiguation).
Carmine
Carmine ( /ˈkɑrmɪn/ or /ˈkɑrmaɪn/), also called Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4[1], C.I. 75470[1], or E120, is a pigment of a bright-red color obtained from the aluminum salt of carminic acid, which is produced by some scale insects, such as the cochineal scale and the Polish cochineal, and is used as a general term for a particularly deep-red color of the same name. Carmine is used in the manufacture of artificial flowers, paints, crimson ink, rouge, and other cosmetics, and is routinely added to food products such as yogurt and certain brands of juice, the most notable ones being those of the ruby-red variety.


Carminic acid
To prepare carmine, the powdered scale insect bodies are boiled in ammonia or a sodium carbonate solution, the insoluble matter is removed by filtering, and alum is added to the clear salt solution of carminic acid to precipitate the red aluminium salt, called "carmine lake" or "crimson lake." Purity of color is ensured by the absence of iron. Stannous chloride, citric acid, borax, or gelatin may be added to regulate the formation of the precipitate. For shades of purple, lime is added to the alum; thus, the traditional crimson color is guaranteed not only by carminic acid but also by choice of its chelating metal salt ion.[2]

[StraitTalk]

People lately wont shut up about this.

Can I just say,

BFD.

[Fleshfailures]

I think people probably eat insects by accident all the time, so why is it a big deal if it's in a drink? Besides, carmine is in so many other things that no one ever cared about. I'll keep drinking my over-priced bug juice, haha :nutzoid:

[Big Bacardi]

i ride a mc.....i have open face helmet...i eat lotsa bugs.....i find that the wasps hurt the most going down.....

OMFG we are eating bugs????whats next we be eating cows?????...or worse yet....chickens......

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[Roadster]

I had to eat bugs on a survival course once. Some of them are good if you close yer eyes and then eat it. Do people still eat chocolate covered frogs legs? Fish eggs? How bout that cheese that they celebrate with after maggots have worked in it for a few months.

[jennylives]

Shrimp are the bugs of the sea and we eat them with no issues.

[Roadster]

We eat eggs,,, what comes out of a chickens bum,,,, i wonder who it was that said, the next thing that chicken drops I am gonna eat it :dyinglaughing:

[crookedmember]

After reading this thread, I had to pour myself a tall glass of yeast excrement.

[tnafriesen]

I personally would much rather have natural secretions from bugs then chemicals.. your body should be one with nature why put something into it that was made in a lab. Something your body does not know how to break down properly.. Look at all the vegetable oils and veggie byproducts that are used today that were never used once upon a time and we were just fine without them. You don't get corn oil from squeezing corn a scientist has to mess with its compounds to get what they want. Why not embrace what this world has to offer rather then ingesting some science experiement??