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That Shiny Coating on Your Fruit? It's Made From Insects—and You've Eaten It For Years
You’ve been eating it your whole life, and it’s perfectly OK.
The Takeout on MSN
The Bug Excretion That Coats The Candy You Eat
If you've ever admired the shiny coat of a jelly bean before popping the candy in your mouth, spare a thought for the tiny bug that made that sheen possible.
You’ve been eating it your whole life, and it’s perfectly OK. The natural waxy coating on fruits is often stripped during washing after harvest. Edible lac resin coatings—derived from insects— restore ...
BENGALURU: The red lac pigment, long thought to be made by insects, may actually originate from a yeast-like fungus living symbiotically inside them, researchers at IISc have found. By sequencing the ...
The colourful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside the insect, a new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science ...
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