date:Oct 20, 2023
tural alternative.
Some of the alternatives out there include beet juice, and there are a few others, but none of them have quite the same performance characteristics as the artificial red dye, except for carminic acid. Carminic acid, derived from a Cochineal insect, the Dactylopus coccus beetle, is a potential solution, but its extraction is very costly and supply-constrained today. We developed a better alternative made by biology, with the aim of replacing the widely used artificial red dye