JAS_OH1
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Don't freak out, but FYI: You're eating bugsWe really liked this char siu. Regardless of what she says about the red food coloring not making a difference in flavor, it does so use it.
I know that because there's an American Southern cake called Red Velvet cake that uses red food coloring. I started to make 1 once not realizing I was out of red food coloring until I started making it. Went ahead and made it without. The cake was still good, but didn't taste like a Red Velvet cake should.
We use spice blends we mix up all the time. Some our own and some like Emeril's Creole seasoning from 1 of his old cookbooks before he started selling them commercially.
McCormick's red food coloring isn't made from bugs, but apparently some still is. I quit eating Yoplait strawberry yogurts years ago because they used the red dye from bugs