Starbucks Bug Juice

[Roadster]

Yes but now you have to ask if they are doing anything to the bug juice to make it useable too. Not saying they do but many drugs we use have natural stuff in them but are chemically altered for medical use as they like to do it. But I do agree I would rather bugs then some other weird stuff they use for flavour and color in our foods.
I heard once there was a list of the color products food producers use that you can read up on, surprising, some are safe and some are not. MSG comes to mind,,, seems it bothers some people, is supposedly not really safe for consumption and yet some of our families used it in our home cooking many years ago, maybe some still do. I think one of the products was called Accent. Whats it from? What process does it take to make it? My mother used it.
The process to make some of these products is whats important, the fact that its bugs is just creepy to some people but yet people can survive eating bugs when lost stranded without food.

[Rwede]

Cochineal is used in all the "ruby red grapefruit" and other similarly-coloured juices that you buy in plastic bottles, and has been used for years. You've all sucked back a swig of beetle bugs in your day.

Cochineal does not fade under flourescent lights on the store shelves like other dyes and pigments. Tetra pak juices don't need cochineal to retain colour, as they aren't exposed to light.

Shop wisely, my friends.

[-fluffy-]

Reality Check: I ran across a Health Canada list once of allowable amounts of insect eggs/parts/larvae allowed in different types of prepared foods. It was scary. I'm sure it's out there still but couldn't find it easily with a google search. Not surprising, nothing you'd really want on the front page I'm sure.

[French Castanut]

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

Not we. You.

I've always thought shrimps were a disgusting thing.. They're at the bottom line of the food chain and it's as worse as eating liver... which is a filter full of ... well, would you drink water from your vacuum filter that you just cleaned?