People, what are your thoughts of carmine being used as an all natural food coloring for vitamin C tablets?!


Question: People, what are your thoughts of carmine being used as an all natural food coloring for vitamin C tablets!?
I just noticed Sunkist has carmine listed as their ingredient for all natural food coloring for one of their vitiman C tablets!.

Vegans and vegetarians what are your thoughts over vitamin C being made that isn't being vegetarian and/or vegan!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
When I discovered that carmine is the carapace of an insect used in food coloring and coincidently that it was being used by a line of products that I represented I was horrified and brought it to the attention of the CEO, the VP and Formulator of the products!. It was immediately removed from the ingredient list with apologies and thanks for bringing it to their attention!. No sane manufacturer wants to make his products unacceptable to the huge and growing vegetarian population!. They want to make money!. Help them!. Tell them to remove the offending substance and alert the rest of us as to where you find it!.
There are many companies that provide wonderful vitamins without resorting to food coloring of any kind!. And please remember that synthetics are not recognizable by the body as bio-available!. So make sure that your vitamins are organic, and all natural!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

It takes over 70,000 of these insects to make just one pounds of this dye!. To me there can be no greater slaughter than to support such products!. Veg*ns should avoid this products and others like the plague!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Carmine is natural!. The manufacturer should disclose that it is not vegetarian though!. I think if they disclose that it isnt vegan or veg freindly it is fine!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Crushed bugs!? Ewwwww!. No, thank you!Www@FoodAQ@Com

i don"t it sounds like sp!.!.!.!.wWww@FoodAQ@Com





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