A red natural organic dye, also used as a lake pigment, prepared from the bodies of the female scale insect, Dactylopius coccus Costa (formerly Coccus cacti). Its chief coloring component is carmine.
AAT
300013597
carmine (cochineal)
cocciniglia
Cochenille
cochinilla
grana cochinilla
Koschenille
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