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I need help with this one Tropicana orange strawberry juice. ing: 100% Orange juice from concentrate, fruitcal(calcium, malic acid, citric acid), banana puree, white grape juice from concentrate, strawberry juice from concentrate, natural flavors, cochineal extract Grape is the 4th ingredient. being cautious I will assume ingredients 5-7 are minute. That means the 4 ing. are close to 100% so the fourth being at most less than 25%. But that is still too much as we need (as a side note I never heard of cochineal before. From the columbia encyclopedia: natural dye obtained from an extract of the bodies of the females of the cochineal bug (Dactylopius confusus) found on certain species of cactus, especially Nopalea coccinellifera, native to Mexico and Central America. The insects’ bodies contain the pigment called carminic acid, which is obtained by subjecting a mass of the crushed insects to steam or dry heat; such large numbers of the insects are needed to produce a small amount of dye that the cost is high. Once commonly used as a scarlet-red mordant dye for wool and as a food color, cochineal has been largely replaced by synthetic products. It is used chiefly now as a biological stain. I assume it is inedible - and pretty gross) hag sameah, henry